Demographics of Sweden
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, which is far below the replacement rate of 2.1.
| 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 |
| Language | |
| Official | Swedish |
| Spoken | Swedish, others |
The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday, 20 January 2017. 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.
Statistics Sweden projects a Swedish population of 12.6 million in 2070.