Demographics of Sweden

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Swedes celebrating Midsummer (Swedish: Midsommar)

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Historical population of Sweden

The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Template:Lang (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union, and the 89th-most populous country in the world. The total fertility rate was rated at 1.66 in 2020,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which is far below the replacement rate of 2.1.

The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday, 20 January 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse over the past 70 years as a result of immigration. Every fourth (24.9%) resident in the country has a foreign background and every third (32.3%) has at least one parent born abroad. The most common foreign ancestry is Finnish.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Statistics Sweden projects a Swedish population of 12.6 million in 2070.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population

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Swedish population pyramid, 1860–2020

Cities

Template:Main Sweden has 17 cities with a population of over 100,000 people. Most of Sweden's population lives in Svealand and Götaland.

Fertility

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TFR of Sweden overtime to 2016

The total fertility rate is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.<ref name="ourworldindata.org">Template:Citation</ref>

Years	1630	1632	1634	1636	1638	1640	1642	1644	1646	1648	1650	1652	1654	1656	1658<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.81	4.25	3.89	4.38	4.4	4.92	4.38	4.25	4.95	5.4	4.34	4.54	5.33	4.72	4.58

Years	1660	1662	1664	1666	1668	1670	1672	1674	1676	1678	1680	1682	1684	1686	1688<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.2	4.54	5.01	4.98	4.6	5.13	5.01	4.38	4.28	4.35	4.64	5.4	5.25	4.84	5.29

Years	1690	1692	1694	1696	1698	1700	1702	1704	1706	1708	1710	1712	1714	1716	1718<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.99	5.11	4.98	5.33	5.11	5.56	5.81	5.52	5.16	5.32	4.3	5.63	5.81	4.92	5.13

Years	1720	1722	1724	1726	1728	1730	1732	1734	1736	1738	1740	1742	1744	1746	1748<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.62	5.09	5.02	4.75	4.23	4.77	4.86	4.77	4.51	4.96	4.52	4.35	5.02	4.85	4.86

Years	1750	1752	1754	1756	1758	1760	1762	1764	1766	1768	1770	1772	1774	1776	1778<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	5.09	5.29	5.4	5.23	4.68	5.06	4.98	4.92	4.79	4.77	4.68	4.1	4.89	4.67	4.94

Years	1780	1782	1784	1786	1788	1790	1792	1794	1796	1798	1800<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	5.06	4.54	4.47	4.67	4.81	4.33	5.19	4.79	4.92	4.79	4.07

Years	1801	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806	1807	1808	1809	1810<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.26	4.5	4.45	4.52	4.5	4.36	4.42	4.31	3.78	4.67

Years	1811	1812	1813	1814	1815	1816	1817	1818	1819	1820<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	5.01	4.76	4.22	4.42	4.93	5.01	4.74	4.8	4.68	4.68

Years	1821	1822	1823	1824	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829	1830<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	5.03	5.09	5.22	4.9	5.18	4.94	4.44	4.77	4.94	4.67

Years	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.32	4.38	4.84	4.78	4.63	4.52	4.37	4.17	4.18	4.46

Years	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849	1850<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.3	4.49	4.36	4.56	4.46	4.25	4.2	4.3	4.66	4.45

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A Swedish family with their five children in 1898

Years	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.36	4.2	4.26	4.53	4.3	4.23	4.36	4.66	4.71	4.71

Years	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.44	4.59	4.65	4.69	4.58	4.68	4.4	3.93	4.03	4.11

Years	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.37	4.34	4.49	4.54	4.6	4.57	4.62	4.44	4.56	4.36

Years	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.29	4.32	4.24	4.4	4.34	4.39	4.36	4.24	4.1	4.15

Years	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
Total fertility rate in Sweden	4.14	3.93	3.97	3.94	4.01	3.98	3.92	3.99	3.9	4

Life expectancy

Sources: Our World In Data and the United Nations.

1751–1949

Years	1751	1754	1756	1768	1776	1781	1789	1795	1810	1818	1824	1837	1847	1855	1861<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
Life expectancy in Sweden	38.4	37.4	36.2	35.0	41.5	37.8	31.2	36.5	31.9	40.0	44.9	39.6	40.1	43.0	47.1

Years	1868	1872	1878	1884	1890	1896	1905	1911	1913	1916	1922	1929	1935	1943	1949<ref name=":0" />
Life expectancy in Sweden	43.2	50.0	47.6	49.1	50.4	53.4	54.5	58.0	58.7	58.2	61.0	62.3	64.9	68.7	70.8

1950–2015

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Life expectancy in Sweden since 1751

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Life expectancy in Sweden since 1960 by gender

Period	Life expectancy in Years	Period	Life expectancy in Years
1950–1955	71.9	1985–1990	77.2
1955–1960	72.9	1990–1995	78.2
1960–1965	73.5	1995–2000	79.3
1965–1970	74.1	2000–2005	80.1
1970–1975	74.8	2005–2010	81.1
1975–1980	75.4	2010–2015	81.9
1980–1985	76.4

Source: UN World Population ProspectsTemplate:Largest cities of Sweden

Statistics

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Estimated birth rate (blue) and death rate in Sweden for the period of 1735 to 2000. The graph indicates strong population growth for the period of 1800 to 1970, and a beginning population decline from the 1980s.

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The birth and death rates in Sweden 1950–2008.

Demographic statistics according to the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.<ref name="cia.gov">Sweden Template:Webarchive. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.</ref>

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Population change

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Population density in the counties of Sweden.
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The demography of Sweden is monitored by Statistics Sweden (SCB).

The 2005 Swedish census showed an increase of 1,488,322 compared to the 1990 census, an average increase of 88,680 annually. During the 1930s, birth rate increased by more than 88128.5 children per year while death rates fell and immigration surged. In the early 2000s, birth rate declined as immigration increased further, with the context of unrest in the Middle East, upholding steady population growth.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population projections

In 1950 Sweden had fewer people aged 10–20 with more people ages 20–30 and 0–10. In 2017 the ratio of male to female remains steady at about 50–50. As a whole, the graph broadens with people appearing to live longer. In 2050 it is predicted that all ages will increase from below 300,000 males and females to above 300,000 males and females. With about 50,000 people living to the ages of 90–100. In 2100 the graph is shaped as a rectangle with people of all ages and genders remaining steady. It narrows slightly at the top of the graph with about 250,000/300,000 males and females living to be 90–100 years old.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Statistics Sweden projects the following population development in Sweden:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year	Projection
2016	9,995,000
2020	10,431,000
2026	11,046,000
2030	11,344,000
2040	11,898,000
2050	12,395,000
2060	12,858,000

Eurostat projects a population in Sweden reaching 11,994,364 people in 2040 and 14,388,478 in 2080.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Urbanisation and population density

The population density is just over 25 people per km² (65 per square mile), with 1,437 persons per km² in localities (continuous settlement with at least 200 inhabitants).<ref name="SCB2020">Template:Cite web</ref>^,<ref name="SCB2019">Template:Cite web</ref> 87% of the population live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area.<ref name="SCB2018">Statistiska tätorter 2018 Template:Webarchive page 33</ref> 63% of Swedes are in large urban areas.<ref name="SCB2018" /> The population density is substantially higher in the south than in the north. The capital city Stockholm has a municipal population of about 950,000 (with 1.5 million in the urban area and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area). The second- and third-largest cities are Gothenburg and Malmö. Greater Gothenburg counts just over a million inhabitants and the same goes for the western part of Scania, along the Öresund. The Öresund Region, the Danish-Swedish cross-border region around the Öresund that Malmö is part of, has a population of 4 million. Outside of major cities, areas with notably higher population density include the agricultural part of Östergötland, the western coast, the area around Lake Mälaren and the agricultural area around Uppsala.

Norrland, which covers approximately 60% of the Swedish territory, has a very low population density (below 5 people per square kilometer). The mountains and most of the remote coastal areas are almost unpopulated. Low population density exists also in large parts of western Svealand, as well as southern and central Småland. An area known as Finnveden, which is located in the south-west of Småland, and mainly below the 57th parallel, can also be considered as almost empty of people.

Origin

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Population pyramid of Sweden over time by origin

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Percentage born to foreign born mothers

The majority of the population are ethnic Swedes, or people who can trace most of their ethnicity to Sweden going back at least 12 generations. The Sweden Finns are a large ethnic minority comprising approximately 50,000 along the Swedish-Finnish border, and 450,000 first and second-generation immigrated ethnic Finns, mainly living in the Mälaren Valley region. Meänkieli Finnish has official status in parts of northern Sweden near the Finnish border. In addition, Sweden's indigenous population groups include the Sámi people, who have a history of practicing hunting and gathering and gradually adopting a largely semi-nomadic reindeer herding lifestyle. While the Sámi have lived in Fennoscandia from at earliest 3,500 years<ref name="Broadbent">Template:Cite book</ref> to at latest around 2,650 years,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Sámi settlement of Scandinavia does not predate Norse/Scandinavian settlement of Scandinavia, as sometimes popularly assumed.Template:Cn The migration of Germanic-speaking peoples to Southern Scandinavia happened independently and separate from the later Sámi migrations into the northern regions.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Today, the Sámi language holds the status of official minority language in the Norrbotten, Västerbotten and Jämtland counties.

In addition to the Sámi, Tornedalers, and Sweden Finns, Jewish and Roma people have national minority status in Sweden.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Statistics Sweden, around two million (19.6%) inhabitants in Sweden are born in another country. Of those, more than half are Swedish citizens.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The most common countries of origin were Syria (1.82%), Finland (1.45%), Iraq (1.41%), Poland (0.91%), Iran (0.76%) and Somalia (0.67%).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The average age in Sweden is 41.1 years.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

There are at least two studies that forecast future demographic changes in Sweden largely due to immigration and low birth rates. A 2006 study states that "[based upon current data, extrapolated with relevant assumptions] Sweden and the Netherlands would have majority foreign-origin populations by the end of the [21st] century."<ref>"Immigration and Ethnic Change in Low-Fertility Countries: A third Demographic Transition” Population and Development Review. 32:3. Quoted from page 416. https://web.archive.org/web/20210304211516/https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~jrw/Biblio/Eprints/%20A-C/coleman.2006_PDR_3rd.DT.pdf)</ref> A 2018 study concluded that in Sweden by "2065, the share of the native population is [set] to decrease to 49%, the Western population is projected to fall to 63%, and the Muslim population increase to 25%."<ref>Tarvainen, K. (2018). Population projections for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, 2015–2065. Bulletin of Geography. Socioeconomic Series, 39(39), 147–160. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://web.archive.org/web/20201226134756/https://www.bulletinofgeography.umk.pl/39_2018/10_Tarvainen.pdf</ref> Thomas Lindh, at the time head researcher for the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies, claimed in an interview that by the year "2050, more than half of Sweden's population will be immigrants or second-generation immigrants."<ref>Wirén, Arne. 6 September 2005. "Fattighjons-Sverige hotar” Metro. Page 6. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://web.archive.org/web/20051031033629/http://www.metro.se/content/acrobat/skane/SEMMA_20050929_A_Metro.pdf</ref>

Origin statistics in Sweden back to 1900

Background Groups	Year
	1900<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>		1930<ref name=":1" />		1950<ref name=":1" />		1960<ref name=":1" />		1970<ref name=":1" />		1980<ref name=":1" />		1990<ref name=":1" />		2002<ref name=":10">Template:Cite web</ref>		2005<ref name=":10" />		2010<ref name=":10" />		2015<ref name=":10" />		2020<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>		2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>		2024<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Swedes with two Swedish parents	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,028,802	78.61%	6,997,684	77.34%	6,965,033	73.97%	6,939,156	70.44%	6,900,476	66.5%	6,878,225	65.4%	6,841,416	64.6%
Swedes with one Swedish parent and one foreign born	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	553,772	6.19%	586,710	6.48%	652,648	6.93%	724,841	7.35%	792,779	7.6%	816,209	7.8%	835,417	7.9%
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Total: Swedes	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,561,000	91%	7,613,600	88.6%	7,582,574	84.8%	7,584,394	83.82%	7,617,681	80.90%	7,663,997	77.79%	7,693,255	74.1%	7,694,434	73.1%	7,676,833	72.5%
Born in Sweden to two foreign-born parents	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	130,000	1.5%	187,000	2.2%	304,751	3.40%	337,568	3.73%	412,960	4.38%	510,756	5.18%	639,309	6.2%	681,448	6.5%	710,639	6.7%
Born outside Sweden	36,000	0.7%	62,000	1%	198,000	2.8%	300,000	4%	538,000	6.7%	627,000	7.5%	790,000	9.2%	1,053,463	11.78%	1,125,790	12.44%	1,384,929	14.70%	1,676,264	17.01%	2,046,731	19.7%	2,145,674	20.4%	2,200,238	20.8%
Total: Foreign background	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	757,000	9%	977,000	11.4%	1,358,214	15.19%	1,463,358	16.17%	1,797,889	19.09%	2,187,020	22.20%	2,686,040	25.9%	2,827,122	26.9%	2,910,877	27.5%
Overall Total	5,136,441	100%	6,142,191	100%	7,041,829	100%	7,497,967	100%	8,081,229	100%	8,317,937	100%	8,590,630	100%	8,940,788	100%	9,047,752	100%	9,415,570	100%	9,851,017	100%	10,379,295	100%	10,521,556	100%	10,587,710	100%

• Origin groups mapped as percentage of the population in counties in Sweden
• Swedes of two Swedish parents in Sweden's counties and overall as of 2020.
  Swedes of two Swedish parents in Sweden's counties and overall as of 2020.
• Percentage of those of a foreign background in total in Sweden in 2021
  Percentage of those of a foreign background in total in Sweden in 2021

• Population pyramids of each origin group
• Population pyramid of Sweden by origin group in 2021
  Population pyramid of Sweden by origin group in 2021
• Swede of two Swedish parents
  Swede of two Swedish parents
• Swede of one Swedish parent and one foreign born
  Swede of one Swedish parent and one foreign born
• Foreign born
  Foreign born
• Born in Sweden to two foreign born parents
  Born in Sweden to two foreign born parents

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Foreign born within Stockholm county by municipality in 2021

Extended origin background statistics

Extended origin background statistics

Country	1994<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
	1st generation	2nd generation	Total
Nordic countries	298,844	349,140	647,984
Template:Flag	40,907		93,650
Template:Flag	207,796	235,042	442,838
Template:Flag	4,285		6,358
Template:Flag	45,851		108,340
Other Europe	306,503	182,996	489,499
Template:Flag	12,441		23,671
Template:Flag	112,320	36,685	149,005
Template:Flag	39,009		62,533
Template:Flag	10,885	3,136	14,021
Template:Flag	12,569		24,588
Template:Flag	36,500		86,894
Template:Flag	14,799		27,646
Other	67,980		101,141
Africa	44,961	22,740	67,701
Template:Flag	11,384	4,056	15,440
Other Africa	33,577	18,68	35,445
North America	15,598	17,370	32,968
Template:Flag	13,746	15,586	29,332
Other North America	1,852	1,784	3,636
Latin America	53,471	21,262	74,733
Asia	34,941	11,257	46,198
Template:Flag	9,953		13,607
Template:Flag	9,219		12,626
Template:Flag	8,447		9,895
Template:Flag	7,322		10,070
Middle East + Turkey	131,989	53,189	185,178
Template:Flag	23,389		29,454
Template:Flag	48,693		59,246
Template:Flag	9,072	5,973	15,045
Template:Flag	21,593		31,248
Template:Flag	29,242		50,185
Oceania	2,232	1,243	3,475
Total	922,055	676,468	1,598,523

Vital statistics

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Births and deaths over time in Sweden

Data according to Statistics Sweden, which collects the official statistics for Sweden.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

	Average population (31 December)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)	Crude migration change (per 1000)	Total fertility ratesTemplate:Refn
1900	5,136,441 <ref>Population by year, visited 13 september 2023</ref>	138,139	86,146	51,993	27.0	16.8	10.2		4.02
1901	5,175,228	139,370	82,772	56,598	27.0	16.1	10.9	-3.3	4.04
1902	5,198,752	137,364	79,722	57,642	26.5	15.4	11.1	-6.6	3.95
1903	5,221,291	133,896	78,610	55,286	25.7	15.1	10.6	-6.3	3.82
1904	5,260,811	134,952	80,152	54,800	25.7	15.3	10.4	-2.8	3.83
1905	5,294,885	135,409	82,443	52,966	25.7	15.6	10.1	-3.6	3.83
1906	5,337,055	136,620	76,366	60,254	25.7	14.4	11.3	-3.3	3.81
1907	5,377,713	136,793	78,149	58,644	25.5	14.6	10.9	-3.3	3.77
1908	5,429,600	138,874	80,568	58,306	25.7	14.9	10.8	-1.2	3.79
1909	5,476,441	139,505	74,538	64,967	25.6	13.7	11.9	-3.3	3.71
1910	5,522,403	135,625	77,212	58,413	24.7	14.0	10.7	-2.3	3.60
1911	5,561,799	132,977	76,462	56,515	24.0	13.8	10.2	-3.1	3.49
1912	5,604,192	132,868	79,241	53,627	23.8	14.2	9.6	-2.0	3.44
1913	5,638,583	130,200	76,724	53,476	23.2	13.6	9.6	-3.5	3.32
1914	5,679,607	129,458	78,311	51,147	22.9	13.8	9.1	-1.8	3.29
1915	5,712,740	122,997	83,587	39,410	21.6	14.7	6.9	-1.1	3.06
1916	5,757,566	121,679	77,771	43,908	21.2	13.6	7.6	0.2	2.99
1917	5,800,847	120,855	77,385	43,470	20.9	13.4	7.5	0.0	2.93
1918	5,813,850	117,955	104,594	13,361	20.3	18.0	2.3	-0.1	2.83
1919	5,847,037	115,193	84,289	30,904	19.8	14.5	5.3	0.4	2.72
1920	5,904,489	138,753	78,128	60,625	23.6	13.3	10.3	-0.5	3.22
1921	5,954,316	127,723	73,536	54,187	21.5	12.4	9.1	-0.7	2.93
1922	5,987,520	116,946	76,343	40,603	19.6	12.8	6.8	-1.2	2.66
1923	6,005,759	113,435	68,424	45,011	18.9	11.4	7.5	-4.5	2.55
1924	6,036,118	109,055	72,001	37,054	18.1	12.0	6.1	-1.0	2.43
1925	6,053,562	106,292	70,918	35,374	17.6	11.7	5.9	-3.0	2.34
1926	6,074,368	102,007	71,344	30,663	16.8	11.8	5.0	-1.6	2.22
1927	6,087,923	97,994	77,219	20,775	16.1	12.7	3.4	-1.2	2.11
1928	6,105,190	97,868	73,267	24,601	16.1	12.0	4.1	-1.3	2.08
1929	6,120,080	92,861	74,538	18,323	15.2	12.2	3.0	-0.6	1.95
1930	6,142,191	94,220	71,790	22,430	15.4	11.7	3.7	-0.1	1.96
1931	6,162,446	91,074	77,121	13,953	14.8	12.5	2.3	1.0	1.88
1932	6,190,364	89,779	71,459	18,320	14.5	11.6	2.9	1.6	1.83
1933	6,211,566	85,020	69,607	15,413	13.7	11.2	2.5	0.9	1.72
1934	6,233,090	85,092	69,921	15,171	13.7	11.2	2.5	1.0	1.67
1935	6,250,506	85,906	72,813	13,093	13.8	11.7	2.1	0.7	1.70
1936	6,266,888	88,938	74,836	14,102	14.2	12.0	2.2	0.4	1.75
1937	6,284,722	90,373	75,392	14,981	14.4	12.0	2.4	0.4	1.77
1938	6,310,214	93,946	72,693	21,253	14.9	11.5	3.4	0.7	1.84
1939	6,341,303	97,380	72,876	24,504	15.4	11.5	3.9	1.0	1.90
1940	6,371,432	95,778	72,748	23,030	15.1	11.4	3.7	1.1	1.86
1941	6,406,474	99,727	71,910	27,817	15.6	11.3	4.3	1.2	1.92
1942	6,458,200	113,961	63,741	50,220	17.7	9.9	7.8	0.3	2.19
1943	6,522,827	125,392	66,105	59,287	19.3	10.2	9.1	0.9	2.41
1944	6,597,348	134,991	72,284	62,707	20.6	11.0	10.6	0.8	2.61
1945	6,673,749	135,373	71,901	63,472	20.4	10.8	10.4	1.2	2.63
1946	6,763,685	132,597	70,635	61,962	19.7	10.5	9.2	4.3	2.57
1947	6,842,046	128,779	73,579	55,200	18.9	10.8	8.1	3.5	2.50
1948	6,924,888	126,683	67,693	58,990	18.4	9.8	8.6	3.5	2.47
1949	6,986,181	121,272	69,537	51,735	17.4	10.0	7.4	1.5	2.39
1950	7,041,829	115,414	70,296	45,118	16.5	10.0	6.5	1.5	2.28
1951	7,098,740	110,168	69,799	40,369	15.6	9.9	5.7	2.4	2.20
1952	7,150,606	110,192	68,270	41,922	15.5	9.6	5.9	1.4	2.22
1953	7,192,316	110,144	69,553	40,591	15.4	9.7	5.7	0.1	2.25
1954	7,234,667	105,096	69,030	36,066	14.6	9.6	5.0	0.9	2.18
1955	7,290,112	107,305	68,634	38,671	14.8	9.5	5.3	2.4	2.25
1956	7,338,991	107,960	70,205	37,755	14.8	9.6	5.2	1.5	2.29
1957	7,388,611	107,168	73,132	34,036	14.6	9.9	4.7	2.1	2.29
1958	7,429,675	105,502	71,065	34,437	14.2	9.6	4.6	1.0	2.26
1959	7,462,823	104,743	70,889	33,854	14.1	9.5	4.5	0.0	2.29
1960	7,497,967	102,219	75,093	27,126	13.7	10.0	3.7	1.0	2.17
1961	7,542,028	104,501	73,555	30,946	13.9	9.8	4.1	1.8	2.21
1962	7,581,148	107,284	76,791	30,493	14.2	10.2	5.6	-0.4	2.25
1963	7,627,507	112,903	76,460	36,443	14.8	10.1	4.7	1.4	2.33
1964	7,695,200	122,664	76,661	46,003	16.0	10.0	6.0	2.9	2.47
1965	7,772,506	122,806	78,194	44,612	15.9	10.1	5.8	4.2	2.39
1966	7,843,088	123,354	78,440	44,914	15.8	10.0	5.8	3.3	2.37
1967	7,892,774	121,360	79,783	41,577	15.4	10.1	5.3	1.0	2.28
1968	7,931,193	113,087	82,476	30,611	14.3	10.4	3.9	1.0	2.07
1969	8,004,270	107,622	83,352	24,270	13.5	10.5	3.0	6.2	1.94
1970	8,081,142	110,150	80,026	30,124	13.7	9.9	3.8	5.8	1.94
1971	8,115,165	114,484	82,717	31,767	14.1	10.2	3.9	0.3	1.98
1972	8,129,129	112,273	84,051	28,222	13.8	10.3	3.5	-1.8	1.93
1973	8,144,428	109,663	85,640	24,023	13.5	10.5	3.0	-1.1	1.88
1974	8,176,691	109,874	86,316	23,558	13.5	10.6	2.9	1.1	1.91
1975	8,208,442	103,632	88,208	15,424	12.6	10.8	1.8	2.1	1.78
1976	8,236,179	98,345	90,677	7,668	12.0	11.0	1.0	2.4	1.70
1977	8,267,116	96,057	88,202	7,855	11.6	10.7	0.9	2.9	1.64
1978	8,284,437	93,248	89,681	3,567	11.3	10.8	0.5	1.6	1.61
1979	8,303,010	96,255	91,074	5,181	11.6	11.0	0.6	1.6	1.66
1980	8,317,937	97,064	91,800	5,264	11.7	11.0	0.7	1.1	1.69
1981	8,323,033	94,065	92,034	2,031	11.3	11.1	0.2	0.4	1.63
1982	8,327,484	92,748	90,671	2,077	11.1	10.9	0.2	0.3	1.60
1983	8,330,573	91,780	90,791	989	11.0	10.9	0.1	0.3	1.61
1984	8,342,621	93,889	90,483	3,406	11.3	10.9	0.4	1.0	1.66
1985	8,358,139	98,463	94,032	4,431	11.8	11.3	0.5	1.4	1.74
1986	8,381,515	101,950	93,295	8,655	12.2	11.1	1.1	1.7	1.79
1987	8,414,083	104,699	93,307	11,392	12.5	11.1	1.4	2.5	1.84
1988	8,458,888	112,080	96,743	15,337	13.3	11.5	1.8	3.5	1.96
1989	8,527,036	116,023	92,110	23,913	13.7	10.8	2.9	5.2	2.02
1990	8,590,630	123,938	95,161	28,777	14.5	11.1	3.4	4.1	2.14
1991	8,644,119	123,737	95,202	28,535	14.4	11.0	3.4	2.8	2.12
1992	8,692,013	122,848	94,710	28,138	14.2	10.9	3.3	2.2	2.09
1993	8,745,109	117,998	97,008	20,990	13.5	11.1	2.4	3.7	2.00
1994	8,816,381	112,257	91,844	20,413	12.8	10.5	2.3	5.8	1.90
1995	8,837,496	103,326	96,910	6,416	11.7	11.0	0.7	1.7	1.74
1996	8,844,499	95,297	94,133	1,164	10.8	10.6	0.2	0.6	1.61
1997	8,847,625	89,171	92,674	-3,503	10.1	10.5	-0.4	0.8	1.52
1998	8,854,322	88,384	92,891	-4,507	10.0	10.5	-0.5	1.3	1.51
1999	8,861,426	88,173	94,726	-6,553	10.0	10.7	-0.7	1.5	1.50
2000	8,882,792	90,441	93,285	-2,844	10.2	10.5	-0.3	2.7	1.54
2001	8,909,128	91,466	93,752	-2,286	10.3	10.5	-0.2	3.2	1.57
2002	8,940,788	95,815	95,009	806	10.7	10.6	0.1	3.5	1.65
2003	8,975,670	99,157	92,961	6,196	11.1	10.4	0.7	3.2	1.71
2004	9,011,392	100,928	90,532	10,396	11.2	10.1	1.1	2.9	1.75
2005	9,047,752	101,346	91,710	9,636	11.2	10.2	1.0	3.0	1.77
2006	9,113,257	105,913	91,177	14,736	11.7	10.0	1.7	5.5	1.85
2007	9,182,927	107,421	91,729	15,692	11.7	10.0	1.7	5.9	1.88
2008	9,256,347	109,301	91,449	17,852	11.9	9.9	2.0	6.0	1.91
2009	9,340,682	111,801	90,080	21,721	12.0	9.7	2.3	6.8	1.93
2010	9,415,570	115,641	90,487	25,154	12.3	9.6	2.7	5.3	1.98
2011	9,482,885	111,770	89,938	21,832	11.8	9.5	2.3	4.8	1.90
2012	9,555,893	113,177	91,938	21,239	11.9	9.7	2.2	5.5	1.90
2013	9,644,000	113,593	90,402	23,191	11.8	9.4	2.4	6.8	1.89
2014	9,747,000	114,907	88,976	25,931	11.9	9.2	2.7	8.0	1.88
2015	9,851,000	114,870	90,907	23,963	11.7	9.3	2.4	8.3	1.85
2016	9,995,000	117,425	90,982	26,443	11.8	9.2	2.6	12.0	1.85
2017	10,120,000	115,416	91,972	23,444	11.4	9.1	2.3	10.2	1.78
2018	10,230,000	115,832	92,185	23,647	11.3	9.0	2.3	8.6	1.75
2019	10,327,000	114,523	88,766	25,757	11.1	8.6	2.5	7.0	1.70
2020	10,379,000	113,077	98,124	14,953	10.9	9.5	1.4	3.6	1.66
2021	10,452,326	114,263	91,958	22,305	10.9	8.8	2.1	4.9	1.67
2022	10,521,556	104,734	94,737	9,997	10.0	9.0	1.0	5.6	1.52
2023	10,551,707	100,051	94,385	5,666	9.5	9.0	0.5	2.3	1.45
2024	10,587,710	98,451	91,268	7,183	9.3	8.6	0.7	2.7	1.43

In 2021 80,465 (70.4%) babies were born to Swedish-born mothers while 33,798 (29.6%) were born to foreign-born mothers. The total fertility rate for Swedish-born women was 1.62, for foreign-born ones 1.86. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2022 73,294 (70.0%) babies were born to Swedish-born mothers while 31,440 (30.0%) were born to foreign-born mothers. The total fertility rate for Swedish-born women was 1.47, for foreign-born ones 1.69.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Current vital statistics

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Period	Live births	Deaths	Natural increase
January - March 2024	24,622	24,234	388
January - March 2025	23,906	24,828	-922
Difference	Template:Decrease -716 (−2,91%)	Template:Increasenegative +594 (+2.45%)	Template:Decrease -1,310

Total fertility rates by areas

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National areas	TFR
Småland and the islands	1.59
Middle Norrland	1.50
West Sweden	1.48
South Sweden	1.48
North Middle Sweden	1.47
East Middle Sweden	1.42
Stockholm	1.40
Upper Norrland	1.38

Structure of the population

Age Group	Male	Female	Total	%
Total	5 222 847	5 156 448	10 379 295	100
0–4	305 880	289 196	595 076	5.73
5–9	319 463	300 892	620 355	5.98
10–14	320 338	302 029	622 367	6.00
15–19	298 045	278 531	576 576	5.56
20–24	307 498	271 966	579 464	5.58
25–29	369 377	348 382	717 759	6.92
30–34	378 916	361 033	739 949	7.13
35–39	338 542	320 188	658 730	6.35
40–44	323 615	310 620	634 235	6.11
45–49	338 455	328 772	667 227	6.43
50–54	339 035	329 537	668 572	6.44
55–59	324 658	317 015	641 673	6.18
60–64	285 462	283 764	569 226	5.48
65-69	265 210	271 524	536 734	5.17
70-74	268 233	282 384	550 617	5.30
75-79	219 254	237 761	457 015	4.40
80-84	125 935	155 095	281 030	2.71
85-89	64 699	98 675	163 374	1.57
90-94	24 686	51 690	76 376	0.74
95-99	5 132	15 359	20 491	0.20
100+	414	2 035	2 449	0.02
Age group	Male	Female	Total	Percent
0–14	945 681	892 117	1 837 798	17.71
15–64	3 303 603	3 149 808	6 453 411	62.18
65+	973 563	1 114 523	2 088 086	20.12

Migration

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Population pyramid segmented by background. Swedish background in color, foreign background in gray

Prior to World War II, emigrants generally outnumbered immigrants. Since then, net migration has been positive with many immigrants coming to Sweden from the 1970s through today.

Emigration

Between 1820 and 1930, approximately 1.3 million Swedes, a third of the country's population at the time, emigrated to North America, and most of them to the United States. There are more than 4.4 million Swedish Americans according to a 2006 US Census Bureau estimate.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In Canada, the community of Swedish ancestry is 330,000 strong.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Immigration

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The demographic profile of Sweden has altered considerably due to immigration patterns since the 1970s. As of 2020, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,686,040 or 25.9% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to one third (33.5%).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Additionally, the birth rate among immigrant women after arriving in Sweden is somewhat higher than among ethnic Swedes.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Taking into account the fact that immigrant women have on average fewerTemplate:Citation needed children than Swedish women of comparable age, however, the difference in total birth rate is only 0.1 children more if the woman is foreign born – with the disclaimer that some women may have children not immigrating to and not reported in Sweden, who are thus not included in the statistics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Historical immigration

World War II

Immigration increased markedly with World War II. Historically, the most numerous of foreign born nationalities are ethnic Germans from Germany and other Scandinavians from Denmark and Norway.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In short order, 70,000 war children were evacuated from Finland, of which 15,000 remained in Sweden. Also, many of Denmark's nearly 7,000 Jews who were evacuated to Sweden decided to remain there.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

A sizeable community from the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) arrived during the Second World War.<ref name = "Integrationsverket">Template:Cite book</ref>

1945 to 1967

During the 1950s and 1960s, the recruitment of immigrant labour was an important factor of immigration. The Nordic countries signed a trade agreement in 1952, establishing a common labour market and free movement across borders. This migration within the Nordic countries, especially from Finland, was essential to create the tax-base required for the expansion of the strong public sector now characteristic of Scandinavia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> but the influx gave rise to an anti-Finnish sentiment within Sweden and Norway. This continued until 1967, when the labour market became saturated, and Sweden introduced new immigration controls.

On a smaller scale, Sweden took in political refugees from Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia after their countries were invaded by the Soviet Union in 1956 and 1968, respectively.

Contemporary immigration

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Swedish and foreign born population pyramid in 2022

Since the early 1970s, immigration to Sweden has been mostly due to refugee migration and family reunification from countries in the Middle East and Latin America.<ref name="MPI">Sweden: Restrictive Immigration Policy and Multiculturalism Template:Webarchive, Migration Policy Institute, 2006.</ref> According to Eurostat, in 2010, there were 1.33 million foreign-born residents in Sweden, corresponding to 14.3% of the total population. Of these, 859,000 (64.3%) were born outside the EU and 477,000 (35.7%) were born in another EU Member State.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> By comparison, the Swedish civil registry reports, for 2018, that nearly 1.96 million residents are foreign-born, a 47% increase from 2010. There are 8.27 million Swedish-born residents, giving a total population of 10.23 million, and a 19.1% foreign-born population.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Malmö, the third largest city of Sweden and Skåne County as a whole have taken in highest numbers of refugees who reached Sweden, in particular during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s and the Syrian civil war in the 2010s.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The first group of Assyrians/Syriacs moved to Sweden from Lebanon in 1967. Many of them live in Södertälje (Stockholm).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> There are also around 40,000 Roma in Sweden.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Some Roma people have long historical roots in Sweden, while others are more recent migrants from elsewhere in Europe.

Immigrants from Western Asia have been a rapidly growing share of Sweden's population. According to the government agency Statistics Sweden, the number of immigrants born in all of Asia (including the Middle East) rose from just 1,000 in 1950 to 295,000 in 2003.<ref name="scb.se">Template:Cite web</ref> Most of those immigrants came from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria, according to Statistics Sweden.<ref name="scb.se"/>

Immigration of Iraqis increased dramatically during the Iraq War, beginning in 2003. A total of 8,951 Iraqis came to Sweden in 2006, accounting for 45% of the entire Iraqi migration to Europe. By 2007, the community of Iraqis in Sweden numbered above 70,000. In 2008, Sweden introduced tighter rules on asylum seekers.<ref name=Swedentightens>Template:Cite web</ref>

A significant number of Syrian Christians have also settled in Sweden. There have also been immigrants from South-Central Asia such as Afghanistan and India. Since the European migrant crisis, Syrians became the second-largest group of foreign-born persons in the Swedish civil registry in 2017 with 158,443 people (after former Yugoslavia).

Note that the table below lists the citizenship the person had when arriving in Sweden, and therefore there are no registered Eritreans, Russians or Bosnians from 1990, they were recorded as Ethiopians, Soviets and Yugoslavs. The nationality of Yugoslavs below is therefore people who came to Sweden from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before 1991 and people who came from today's Montenegro and Serbia before 2003, then called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Counting all people who came from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, there were 176,033 people from there in 2018. Template:Table alignment

Migration data of Sweden (2000–present)

	Total		Swedes only			Total
Year	Immigration	Emigration	Immigration	Emigration	Net Migration	Net Migration
2000	58,659	34,091	13,482	18,256	-4,774	24,568
2001	60,795	32,141	13,797	16,677	-2,880	28,654
2002	64,087	33,009	13,266	15,810	-2,544	31,078
2003	63,795	35,023	12,588	16,317	-3,729	28,772
2004	62,028	36,586	11,467	16,634	-5,167	25,442
2005	65,229	38,118	11,066	17,866	-6,800	27,111
2006	95,750	44,908	12,821	19,971	-7,150	50,842
2007	99,485	45,418	12,340	19,769	-7,429	54,067
2008	101,171	45,294	13,388	20,648	-7,260	55,877
2009	102,280	39,240	13,985	16,732	-2,747	63,040
2010	98,801	48,853	14,870	21,173	-6,303	49,948
2011	96,467	51,179	15,582	22,205	-6,623	45,288
2012	103,059	51,747	15,341	19,819	-4,478	51,312
2013	115,845	50,715	15,332	20,237	-4,905	65,130
2014	126,966	51,237	15,194	19,161	-3,967	75,729
2015	134,240	55,830	14,580	18,452	-3,872	78,410
2016	163,005	45,878	15,318	16,818	-1,500	117,127
2017	144,489	45,620	14,428	16,760	-2,332	98,869
2018	132,602	46,981	12,805	16,655	-3,850	85,621
2019	115,805	47,718	11,955	16,028	-4,073	68,087
2020	82,518	48,937	11,660	15,538	-3,878	33,581
2021	90,631	48,284	10,480	16,975	-6,495	42,347
2022	102,436	50,592	9,869	18,951	-9,082	51,844
2023	94,514	73,434	10,593	23,742	-13,149	21,080
2024	116,197	86,449	11,907	24,804	-12,898	29,748

Language

Template:Main The Swedish language is by far the dominating language in Sweden, and is used by the government administration. English is also widely spoken and is taught in public schools.

Since 1999, Sweden has five officially recognised minority languages: Sámi, Meänkieli, Finnish, Romani and Yiddish.

The Sámi languages, spoken by about 20,000–30,000 people worldwide,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> may be used in government agencies, courts, preschools and nursing homes in 26 municipalites: Arjeplog, Arvidsjaur, Berg, Dorotea, Gällivare, Härjedalen, Jokkmokk, Kiruna, Krokom, Luleå, Lycksele, Malå, Sorsele, Skellefteå, Stockholm, Storuman, Strömsund, Sundsvall, Umeå, Vilhelmina, Vindeln, Åre, Åsele, Älvdalen, Örnsköldsvik and Östersund. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Meänkieli-speakers have the same rights as above in the following nine municipalites: Gällivare, Haparanda, Kiruna, Pajala, Övertorneå, Kalix, Luleå, Stockholm and Umeå.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Finnish-speakers have the same rights as above in 66 of Sweden's 290 municipalities.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

During the mid to late 20th and early 21st centuries, immigrant communities brought other languages, such as Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic and Neo-Aramaic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Religion

The majority (52.1%) of the population belongs to the Church of Sweden,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Lutheran church that was disestablished as a state church in 2000. Until 1996, those who had family members in the church automatically became members at birth.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Other Christian denominations in Sweden include the Roman Catholic Church (see Catholic Church in Sweden), several Orthodox churches in diaspora, Baptist, Pentecostal, Neo-pietistic (nyevangeliska) and other evangelical Christian churches (frikyrkor = 'free churches'). Shamanism persisted among the Sámi people up until the 18th century, but no longer exists in its traditional form as most Sámi today belong to the Lutheran church.

Jews were permitted to practice their religion in five Swedish cities in 1782, and have enjoyed full rights as citizens since 1870. The new Freedom of Religion Bill was passed in 1951, and former obstacles against Non-Lutherans working in schools and hospitals were removed. Further, that bill made it legal to leave any religious denomination, without entering another. There are also many Muslims, as well as a number of Buddhists and Baháʼís in Sweden, mainly as a result of 20th and 21st century immigration. There is also a small Zoroastrian community in Sweden.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

See also

• Statistics Sweden
• Municipalities of Sweden
• Demographical center of Sweden
• Immigration to Europe
• List of countries by immigrant population
• Aging of Europe
• List of Swedish counties by fertility rate

External links

• Statistics Sweden – Official Database available in English