Sweden 
Facts
Population: 9,031,088 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16.4% (male 759,488/female 717,812)
15-64 years: 65.7% (male 3,007,899/female 2,926,220)
65 years and over: 17.9% (male 707,687/female 911,982) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.159% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.2 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 10.27 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 1.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.058 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.028 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.776 male(s)/female
total population: 0.982 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 2.76 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 2.92 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 80.63 years
male: 78.39 years
female: 83 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.66 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 3,600 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Swede(s)
adjective: Swedish.
Ethnic groups: indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks.
Religions: Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%.
Languages: Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $290.6 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $32,200 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.1%
industry: 28.1%
services: 70.9% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 4.59 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 2%
industry: 24%
services: 74% (2000 est.).
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): 1.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 5.6% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $222 billion
expenditures: $210.5 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk.
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: 4.3% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 150.5 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 137.8 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 17.8 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 15.6 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $173.9 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals.
Exports - partners: US 10.6%, Germany 10.2%, Norway 8.7%, UK 7.4%, Denmark 6.5%, Finland 5.7%, France 4.9%, Netherlands 4.5%, Belgium 4.3% (2005).
Imports: $151.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing.
Imports - partners: Germany 17.6%, Denmark 8.9%, Norway 7.8%, UK 6.6%, Netherlands 6.2%, Finland 5.8%, France 5% (2005).
Debt - external: $598.2 billion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.7 billion (1997).
Currency (code): Swedish krona (SEK).
Exchange rates: Swedish kronor per US dollar - 7.3731 (2006), 7.4731 (2005), 7.3489 (2004), 8.0863 (2003), 9.7371 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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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
Sweden in the News
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Nicola Cacace, writing for Rome's L'Unita, reacts to Sweden's rejection of the euro.
Oslo's Aftenposten comments on Sweden's rejection of the euro and the European Union.
Even after the murder of euro-friendly Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, nearly 60 percent of Swedes voted on Sept. 14 against joining the European Monetary Union. A deeply divided Europe is now emerging, where smaller states struggle to reach parity with larger countries.
PM Nilsson, of Stockholm's Expressen, pens a bitter reply to Paul Kagan's article claiming only the United States has the moral qualifications to lead the world.
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