Editing Demographics of Sweden (section)

=== Urbanisation and population density ===
The [[population density]] is just over 25 people per km<sup>2</sup> (65 per square mile), with 1,437 persons per km<sup>2</sup> in localities (continuous settlement with at least 200 inhabitants).<ref name="SCB2020">{{cite web| url = https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/land-use/localities-and-urban-areas/pong/statistical-news/localities-and-urban-areas-2018-population-2019/| title = Densification in half of Sweden's urban areas| access-date = 9 August 2020| archive-date = 5 August 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200805131606/https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/land-use/localities-and-urban-areas/pong/statistical-news/localities-and-urban-areas-2018-population-2019/| url-status = live}}</ref><sup>,</sup><ref name="SCB2019">{{cite web| url = https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/land-use/localities-and-urban-areas/pong/statistical-news/localities-2018/| title = Roughly 87 percent of the population lives in localities and urban areas| access-date = 9 August 2020| archive-date = 9 August 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200809160442/https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/land-use/localities-and-urban-areas/pong/statistical-news/localities-2018/| url-status = live}}</ref> 87% of the population live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area.<ref name="SCB2018">[https://www.scb.se/contentassets/745b357fd3b74ffd934fc4004ce5cf62/mi0810_2018a01_sm_mi38sm1901.pdf Statistiska tätorter 2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909021440/https://www.scb.se/contentassets/745b357fd3b74ffd934fc4004ce5cf62/mi0810_2018a01_sm_mi38sm1901.pdf |date=9 September 2020 }} 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.