Editing Demographics of Sweden (section)

== Origin ==
[[File:Population pyramid of Sweden over time by origin.gif|thumb|Population pyramid of Sweden over time by origin]]
[[File:Percentage born to foreign born mothers in Sweden.svg|thumb|Percentage born to foreign born mothers]]
The majority of the population are ethnic [[Swedish people|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 [[Finns#Finnish-speaking Finns|ethnic Finns]], mainly living in the [[Mälaren Valley]] region. [[Meänkieli language|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">{{Cite book |title=Lapps and Labyrinths: Saami Prehistory, Colonisation, and Cultural Resilience |last=Broadbent |first=Noel |date=16 March 2010 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press |isbn=978-0-9788460-6-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lappslabyrinthss82010broa/page/304 304] |url=https://archive.org/details/lappslabyrinthss82010broa/page/304 }}</ref> to at latest around 2,650 years,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Aikio |first1=Ante |title=The Study of Saami Substrate Toponyms in Finland |url=http://mnytud.arts.klte.hu/onomural/kotetek/ou4/08aikio.pdf |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111214009/http://mnytud.arts.klte.hu/onomural/kotetek/ou4/08aikio.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Sámi settlement of Scandinavia does not predate Norse/Scandinavian settlement of Scandinavia, as sometimes popularly assumed.{{cn|date=October 2024}} The migration of Germanic-speaking peoples to Southern Scandinavia happened independently and separate from the later Sámi migrations into the northern regions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Price |first=Theron Douglas |title=Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780190231972}}</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, [[Jews|Jewish]] and [[Romani people|Roma]] people have national minority status in Sweden.<ref>{{cite web | title = National minorities and minority languages | publisher = Government Offices of Sweden | url = https://www.government.se/49b72e/contentassets/bb53f1cff8504c5db61fb96168e728be/national-minorities-and-minority-languages | access-date = 26 June 2020 | format = PDF | archive-date = 7 March 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210307214112/https://www.government.se/49b72e/contentassets/bb53f1cff8504c5db61fb96168e728be/national-minorities-and-minority-languages | url-status = dead }}</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>{{cite web |url=https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/tables-and-graphs/yearly-statistics--the-whole-country/summary-of-population-statistics/ |title=Summary of Population Statistics 1960–2019 |work=[[Statistics Sweden]] |access-date=25 September 2020 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925044409/https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/tables-and-graphs/yearly-statistics--the-whole-country/summary-of-population-statistics/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The most common countries of origin were [[Syrians in Sweden|Syria]] (1.82%), [[Sweden Finns|Finland]] (1.45%), [[Swedish Iraqis|Iraq]] (1.41%), [[Poles in Sweden|Poland]] (0.91%), [[Swedish Iranians|Iran]] (0.76%) and [[Somalis in Sweden|Somalia]] (0.67%).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/?rxid=86abd797-7854-4564-9150-c9b06ae3ab07|title=Statistics Sweden|access-date=7 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706144131/http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/?rxid=86abd797-7854-4564-9150-c9b06ae3ab07|archive-date=6 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The average age in Sweden is 41.1 years.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sweden/|title=World Factbook EUROPE : SWEDEN|work=[[The World Factbook]]|date=12 July 2018|access-date=24 January 2021|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118143648/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sweden/|url-status=live}}</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>

<div style="overflow:auto">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right left;font-size: 80%;"
|+Origin statistics in Sweden back to 1900
! rowspan="3" |Background Groups
! colspan="28" |Year
|-
! colspan="2" |1900<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=May 2003 |title=Sveriges framtida befolkning, 2003–2020: Svensk och utländsk bakgrund |url=https://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/publikationer/statistik/be/be0401/2000i02/be51st0305.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519112344/https://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/publikationer/statistik/be/be0401/2000i02/be51st0305.pdf |archive-date=2023-05-19 |access-date= |website=Statistics Sweden (SCB) |language=Swedish}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1930<ref name=":1" />
! colspan="2" |1950<ref name=":1" />
! colspan="2" |1960<ref name=":1" />
! colspan="2" |1970<ref name=":1" />
! colspan="2" |1980<ref name=":1" />
! colspan="2" |1990<ref name=":1" />
! colspan="2" |2002<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|title=Number of persons with foreign or Swedish background (detailed division) by region, age and sex. Year 2002 – 2020|url=http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__BE__BE0101__BE0101Q/UtlSvBakgFin/|access-date=21 December 2021|website=Statistikdatabasen|archive-date=19 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419170843/http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__BE__BE0101__BE0101Q/UtlSvBakgFin/|url-status=live}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2005<ref name=":10" />
! colspan="2" |2010<ref name=":10" />
! colspan="2" |2015<ref name=":10" />
! colspan="2" |2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Population statistics – Population in Sweden by Country/Region of Birth, Citizenship and Swedish/Foreign background, 31 December 2020|url=http://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/|url-status=live|access-date=21 December 2021|website=Statistiska Centralbyrån|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219090449/http://www.scb.se:80/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics |archive-date=19 December 2016 }}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2022<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/tables-and-graphs/foreign-born-citizenship-and-foreignswedish-background/population-in-sweden-by-countryregion-of-birth-citizenship-and-swedishforeign-background-31-december-2022/ | title=Population in Sweden by Country/Region of Birth, Citizenship and Swedish/Foreign background, 31 December 2022 | access-date=25 March 2023 | archive-date=25 March 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325022801/https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/tables-and-graphs/foreign-born-citizenship-and-foreignswedish-background/population-in-sweden-by-countryregion-of-birth-citizenship-and-swedishforeign-background-31-december-2022/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
! colspan="2" |2024<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/tables-and-graphs/foreign-born-citizenship-and-foreignswedish-background/population-in-sweden-by-countryregion-of-birth-citizenship-and-swedishforeign-background-31-december-2023/ | title=Population in Sweden by Country/Region of Birth, Citizenship and Swedish/Foreign background, 31 December 2023 }}</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|20x20px]] 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%
|}
</div>
<gallery mode="packed" widths="200" heights="200" caption="Origin groups mapped as percentage of the population in counties in Sweden">
File:Swedes of two Swedish parents in Sweden 2020.png|Swedes of two Swedish parents in Sweden's counties and overall as of 2020.
File:Percentage foreign born and born to two foreign born parents in Sweden.svg|Percentage of those of a foreign background in total in Sweden in 2021
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" widths="200" heights="175" caption="Population pyramids of each origin group">
File:Population pyramid of Sweden by origin group in 2021.svg|Population pyramid of Sweden by origin group in 2021
File:Born to two Swedish born parents population pyramid.svg|Swede of two Swedish parents
File:Born to one Swedish born parent and one foreign born in Sweden population pyramid.svg|Swede of one Swedish parent and one foreign born
File:Foreign born in Sweden population pyramid in 2021.svg|Foreign born
File:Born to two foreign born parents in Sweden population pyramid.svg|Born in Sweden to two foreign born parents
</gallery>
[[File:Foreign born within Stockholm.svg|thumb|Foreign born within Stockholm county by municipality in 2021]]

=== Extended origin background statistics ===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Extended origin background statistics
! rowspan="2" |Country
! colspan="3" |1994<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Martens |first=Peter L. |date=1997 |title=Immigrants, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Sweden |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/449251 |journal=Crime and Justice |volume=21 |page=188 |doi=10.1086/449251 |issn=0192-3234}}</ref>
|-
!1st generation
!2nd generation
!Total
|-
|
|
|
|
|-
!Nordic countries
!298,844
!349,140
!647,984
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|40,907
|
|93,650
|-
|{{flag|Finland}}
|207,796
|235,042
|442,838
|-
|{{flag|Iceland}}
|4,285
|
|6,358
|-
|{{flag|Norway}}
|45,851
|
|108,340
|-
!Other Europe
!306,503
!182,996
!489,499
|-
|{{flag|Greece}}
|12,441
|
|23,671
|-
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}}
|112,320
|36,685
|149,005
|-
|{{flag|Poland}}
|39,009
|
|62,533
|-
|{{flag|Romania}}
|10,885
|3,136
|14,021
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|12,569
|
|24,588
|-
|{{flag|Germany}}
|36,500
|
|86,894
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|14,799
|
|27,646
|-
|Other
|67,980
|
|101,141
|-
!Africa
!44,961
!22,740
!67,701
|-
|{{flag|Ethiopia}}
|11,384
|4,056
|15,440
|-
|Other Africa
|33,577
|18,68
|35,445
|-
!North America
!15,598
!17,370
!32,968
|-
|{{flag|United States}}
|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
|-
|{{flag|India}}
|9,953
|
|13,607
|-
|{{flag|Vietnam}}
|9,219
|
|12,626
|-
|{{flag|South Korea}}
|8,447
|
|9,895
|-
|{{flag|Thailand}}
|7,322
|
|10,070
|-
!Middle East + Turkey
!131,989
!53,189
!185,178
|-
|{{flag|Iraq}}
|23,389
|
|29,454
|-
|{{flag|Iran}}
|48,693
|
|59,246
|-
|{{flag|Syria}}
|9,072
|5,973
|15,045
|-
|{{flag|Lebanon}}
|21,593
|
|31,248
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|29,242
|
|50,185
|-
!Oceania
!2,232
!1,243
!3,475
|-
|
|
|
|
|-
!Total
!922,055
!676,468
!1,598,523
|}