Sweden

Facts

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 and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
Religions:  Lutheran 87%, 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%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $197 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  4.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $22,200 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  2.2% industry:  27.9% services:  69.9% (1999)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  3.7% highest 10%:  20.1% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  1.2% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  4.4 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture 2%, industry 24%, services 74% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:  6% (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $133 billion expenditures:  $125.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:  iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles
Industrial production growth rate:  7% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  146.633 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  5.53% hydro:  47.24% nuclear:  45.42% other:  1.81% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  128.819 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  15.9 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  8.35 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  grains, sugar beets, potatoes; meat, milk
Exports:  $95.5 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals
Exports - partners:  EU 55% (Germany 11%, UK 10%, Denmark 6%, Finland 5%, France 5%), US 9%, Norway 8% (1999)
Imports:  $80 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:  machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:  EU 67% (Germany 18%, UK 10%, Denmark 7%, France 6%), Norway 8%, US 6% (1999)
Debt - external:  $66.5 billion (1994) Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.7 billion (1997)
Currency:  Swedish krona (SEK)
Currency code:  SEK
Exchange rates:  Swedish kronor per US dollar - 9.4669 (January 2001), 9.1622 (2000), 8.2624 (1999), 7.9499 (1998), 7.6349 (1997), 6.7060 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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