Swedes

This article is about the ethnic group native to Sweden. For other uses, see Swede.
For a specific analysis of the population of Sweden, see Demographics of Sweden.

Swedes
svenskar
Total population
c. 13 million[a]
Regions with significant populations
 Sweden       c. 8 million[b][1]
Other significant population centers:
Swedish citizens abroadc. 546,000[c][2]
Swedish diasporac. 4.5–5 million
 United States4,347,703 (2013; ancestry)[3]
29,000 (Swedish citizens)[3]
 Canada341,845 (2011; ancestry[4]
26,000 (sole ancestry)[4]
 Finlandc. 290,000 (2008)[d][5][2]
 United Kingdom100,000[6]
 Norway36,887[7]–90,000[8]
 Australia30,375 (2006; ancestry)[9]
 France30,000[10][11]
 Germany23,000[12]
 Brazil23,000 (ancestry)[13]
 Spain20,385[14]
 Denmark16,620[15]
 Thailand15,000[16]
 Portugal8,000[17][18]
 Russia7,400[19]
  Switzerland6,800[19]
 Belgium4,600[19]
 Netherlands4,000[19]
 Italy3,233[20]
 Poland2,560[21]
 Turkey2,500[19]
 Greece2,300[19]
 Austria2,000[19]
 Ireland1,800[19]
 Japan1,775[22]
 South Korea1,420[23]
 Luxembourg1,600[19]
 New Zealand1,911 (2018; ancestry)[24]
Swedish minorities with a longer history
 Estonia811 (2021)[25]
 Ukrainec. 200 (2022)[26]
Languages
Swedish
Religion
Primarily Lutheran Christianity
(Church of Sweden)[27]
For further details, see Religion in Sweden
^a The total figure is merely an estimation; sum of all the referenced populations who claim Swedish ancestry worldwide and as such might be misleading or exaggerated.
^b Since there are no official statistics regarding ethnicity in Sweden, the number does not include ethnic Swedes who were born abroad but now repatriated to Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking Finns in Sweden; est. for year 2015.
^c This figure overlaps with those listed under diaspora as most Swedish citizens have emigrated to those countries listed lower in the infobox.
^d
This section is an excerpt from Swedish diaspora § Finland.[edit]
The Swedish-speaking Finns or Finland-Swedes form a minority group in Finland. The characteristic of this minority is debated: while some see it as an ethnic group of its own[28] some view it purely as a linguistic minority.[29] The group includes about 265,000 people, comprising 5.10% of the population of mainland Finland, or 5.50%[30] if the 26,000 inhabitants of Åland are included (there are also about 60,000 Swedish-speaking Finns currently resident in Sweden). It has been presented that the ethnic group can also be perceived as a distinct Swedish-speaking nationality in Finland.[31] There are also 9,000 Swedish citizens living in Finland.[32]

Swedes (Swedish: svenskar), or Swedish people, are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority,[d] with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.

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  28. ^ "...Finland has a Swedish-speaking minority that meets the four major criteria of ethnicity, i.e. self-identification of ethnicity, language, social structure and ancestry (Allardt and Starck, 1981; Bhopal, 1997).
  29. ^ [1] Archived 31 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine...As language is actually the basic or even the only criterion that distinguishes these two groups from each other, it is more correct to speak of Finnish-speakers and Swedish-speakers in Finland instead of Finns and Finland Swedes. Nowadays the most common English term denoting the latter group is 'the Swedish-speaking Finns'.
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  31. ^ The identity of the Swedish[-speaking] minority [in Finland] is however clearly Finnish (Allardt 1997:110). But their identity is twofold: They are both Finland Swedes and Finns (Ivars 1987). (Die Identität der schwedischen Minderheit ist jedoch eindeutig finnisch (Allardt 1997:110). Ihre Identität ist aber doppelt: sie sind sowohl Finnlandschweden als auch Finnen (Ivars 1987).) Saari, Mirja: Schwedisch als die zweite Nationalsprache Finnlands. Retrieved 10 December 2006.
  32. ^ "It is not correct to call a nationality a linguistic group or minority, if it has developed culture of its own. If there is not only a community of language, but also of other characteristics such as folklore, poetry and literature, folk music, theater, behavior, etc." "The concept of nation has a different significance as meaning of a population group or an ethnic community, irrespectively of its organization. For instance, the Swedes of Finland, with their distinctive language and culture form a nationality which under the Finnish constitution shall enjoy equal rights with the Finnish nationality". "In Finland this question (Swedish nationality) has been subjected to much discussion. The Finnish majority tries to deny the existence of a Swedish nationality. An example of this is the fact that the statutes always use the concept "'Swedish-speaking' instead of 'Swedish'". Tore Modeen, The cultural rights of the Swedish ethnic group in Finland (Europa Ethnica, 3–4 1999, jg.56)