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| Demographics of Sweden | |
|---|---|
 Population pyramid of Sweden in 2020 | |
| Population |  10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023) |
| Growth rate | 0.5% (2022 est.) |
| Birth rate | 10.83 births/1,000 population (2022) |
| Death rate | 9.46 deaths/1,000 population (2022) |
| Life expectancy | 82.7 years |
| • male | 80.94 years (2022) |
| • female | 84.58 years (2022 est.) |
| Fertility rate | 1.67 children born/woman (2022 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | 2.3 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Net migration rate | 3.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 17.71% |
| 15–64 years | 62.18% |
| 65 and over | 20.12% |
| Sex ratio | |
| Total | 1.01 male(s)/female (2022 est.) |
| At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
| 65 and over | 0.69 male(s)/female |
| Nationality | |
| Nationality | noun: Swede(s) adjective: Swedish |
| Major ethnic | Swedes (Native) |
| Minor ethnic | |
| Language | |
| Official | Swedish |
| Spoken | Swedish, others |
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The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union, and the 87th-most populous country in the world. The total fertility rate was rated at 1.66 in 2020,[1] which is far below the replacement rate of 2.1.
The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday, 20 January 2017.[2][3] The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse over the past 70 years as a result of immigration. Every fourth (24.9%) resident in the country has a foreign background and every third (32.3%) has at least one parent born abroad. The most common foreign ancestry is Finnish.[4]
Statistics Sweden projects a Swedish population of 12.6 million in 2070.[5]
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