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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 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,^[1] which is far below the replacement rate of 2.1.

The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday, 20 January 2017.^[2][3] 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.^[4]

Statistics Sweden projects a Swedish population of 12.6 million in 2070.^[5]

Population

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review.^[6]

• One birth every 4 minutes
• One death every 6 minutes
• Net gain of one person every 8 minutes
• One net migrant every 14 minutes

Cities

Sweden has 17 cities with a population of over 100,000 people. Most of Sweden's population lives in Svealand and Götaland.

Fertility

The total fertility rate is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.^[7]

Life expectancy

Sources: Our World In Data and the United Nations.

1751–1949