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Europe > Sweden > People

SWEDISH PEOPLE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Age at first marriage for men 32.9 years [1st of 19]
Age at first marriage for women 30.4 years [1st of 19]
Age structure > 0-14 years 17.1 [196th of 226]
Average size of households 2.1 [17th of 17]
Birth rate 10.15 births/1,000 population Time series [195th of 226]
Chinese population 20,000 [43rd of 127]
Death rate 10.24 deaths/1,000 population Time series [64th of 226]
Divorces per 100 marriages 53.9 divorces per 100 marriag [2nd of 20]
Ethnic groups
indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
Marriage rate 4.7 [28th of 27]
Nobel prize laureates 30 [5th of 44]
Population 9,045,389 Time series [88th of 242]
Population growth rate 0.157% Time series [186th of 235]
Population in 2015 9,315 [89th of 225]
Projected population growth 7.37% [105th of 141]
Sex ratio > Under 15 years 1.06 male(s)/female Time series [26th of 224]
Teenage birth rate 6.5 [24th of 28]
Total fertility rate 1.67 children born/woman Time series [171st of 225]
Total Population 9,016,596 [85th of 227]
Urbanization 83 [35th of 204]

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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics. Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; OECD; United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, April 2001; The Nobel Foundation; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Sweden, Kingdom of Sweden, Konungariket Sverige, Sverige

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Suchita Vemuri
Staff Writer

24th February 2005
Hi Farren, check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sweden.
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