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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(Left-wing), Stockholm
http://www.aftonbladet.se/
(Pentacostal Christian), Stockholm
http://www.dagen.com
Stockholm
http://www.di.se/
(Liberal), Stockholm
http://www.dn.se/
(Liberal), Stockholm
http://www.expressen.se/
Göteborgs Tidningen
(Conservative), Göteborg
(Independent), Göteborg
http://gt.se/expressen/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=201
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Two neo-Nazi terrorist incidents, only four weeks apart, shook- Sweden this spring. In the independent daily Jyllands Posten of Arhus, Thomas Heine reported about the murder of two policemen during a bank robbery.
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