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.
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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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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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