Sweden - Country information


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Population		Top of page

Inhabitants		Life expectancy
9,031,088 (July 2007 est.)		total population: 80.63 years male: 78.39 years female: 83 years (2007 est.)

Ethnic groups		Religions
indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks		Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%

Languages		Literacy
Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities		definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Government		Top of page

Government type		Capital
constitutional monarchy		Stockholm

Independance		National day
6 June 1523 (Gustav VASA elected king)		Swedish Flag Day, 6 June (1916); National Day, 6 June (1983)

Constitution		Legal system
1 January 1975		civil law system influenced by customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations

Economy		Top of page

GDP (purchasing power parity)		Growth rate
$371.5 billion (2006 est.)		4.2% (2006 est.)

GDP per inhabitant		Unemployment rate
$31,600 (2006 est.)		5.6% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line		Inflation rate
NA%		1.4% (2006 est.)

Exports		Imports
$173.9 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)		$151.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold		Currency
$22.26 billion (August 2006 est.)		Swedish krona (SEK)

Military expenditures
1.5% (2005 est.)

Geography		Top of page

Location		Area
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway		449,964 sq km

Climate		Natural resources
temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north		iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower

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