Demographics & population — Sweden
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for Sweden: 10,202,491
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Population overview
- Population
10,202,491
- Population Growth Rate
0.18%
- Urban Population
- Population in Major Urban Areas
STOCKHOLM (capital) 1.385 million
Age & family
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
1.64
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
- indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities;
- foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
- Language Note
The numbers in Swedish and in English are very similar. If, for example, you want to say 31 you just take the word for 30, "trettio", and the word for 5, "fem", and put them together to make "trettiofem". This works in exactly the same way as it does in English. Sweden uses the Roman alphabet with three extra letters. å ö ä. Some words are the same in English and Swedish for example "man" and "person" are the same.
- Nationality Noun
Swede(s)
Education
- Literacy - total population
99%
- Literacy - male
99%
- Literacy - female
99%
- Literacy Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
7%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
4
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
3.87
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
2.7
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
9.4%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
18.6%
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
