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Demographics of Sweden

Immigrants in Sweden
Origin
of the larger groups
foreign-born
inhabitants
Finland 193,000
ex-Yugoslavia 135,000
Iraq 56,000
Iran 52,000
Norway 43,000
Poland 41,000
Denmark 39,000
Germany 39,000
Turkey 32,000
Chile 27,000
Lebanon 20,000
United Kingdom 15,500
USA 14,700
Syria 14,600
Hungary 14,000
Somalia 13,500
Romania 12,000
Ethiopia 11,700
India 11,500
Vietnam 11,200
Thailand 11,200
Greece 10,900
Estonia 10,200
Data as of December 2001,
source: Official statistics (http://www.scb.se/indexeng.asp)

From the CIA World Factbook 2001

Population: 8,875,053 (July 2001 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 18.19% (male 828,308; female 786,353)
15-64 years: 64.53% (male 2,911,949; female 2,814,730)
65 years and over: 17.28% (male 649,296; female 884,417) (2001 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.02% (2001 est.)

Birth rate: 9.91 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Death rate: 10.61 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Net migration rate: 0.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.73 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 3.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 79.71 years
male: 77.07 years
female: 82.5 years (2001 est.)

Total fertility rate: 1.53 children born/woman (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.08% (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 3,000 (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (1999 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Swede(s)
adjective: Swedish

Ethnic groups: indigenous population: Swedes (majority), small Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born (i.e. first-generation) immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks

Religions: Lutheran 87% (see Church of Sweden), Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist

Languages: Swedish
note: small Lapp- and Finnish-speaking minorities

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99% (1979 est.)
male: NA%
female: NA%

See also: Sweden



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