Demographics
As of 30 June 2012 (2012-06-30), the total population of Sweden was estimated to be 9,514,406. The population exceeded 9 million for the first time on approximately 12 August 2004 according to Statistics Sweden. The population density is 20.6 people per km² (53.3 per square mile) and it is substantially higher in the south than in the north. About 85% of the population live in urban areas. The capital city Stockholm has a population of about 800,000 (with 1.3 million in the urban area and 2 million in the metropolitan area). The second and third largest cities are Gothenburg and Malmö.
Between 1820 and 1930, approximately 1.3 million Swedes, a third of the country's population, emigrated to North America, and most of them to the United States. There are more than 4.4 million Swedish Americans according to a 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimate. In Canada, the community of Swedish ancestry is 330,000 strong.
There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but as of 2011, a Statistics Sweden report showed that around 1.858.000 (19.6%) inhabitants of Sweden had foreign background, defined as born abroad or born in Sweden by two parents born abroad.
Largest cities or towns of Sweden http://www.citypopulation.de/Sweden-UA.html#Stadt_alpha |
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Rank | City name | County | Pop. | Rank | City name | County | Pop. | ||
Stockholm
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1 | Stockholm | Stockholm | 1,372,565 | 11 | Lund | Skåne | 82,800 | Malmö
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2 | Gothenburg | Västra Götaland | 549,839 | 12 | Umeå | Västerbotten | 79,594 | ||
3 | Malmö | Skåne | 280,415 | 13 | Gävle | Gävleborg | 71,033 | ||
4 | Uppsala | Uppsala | 140,454 | 14 | Borås | Västra Götaland | 66,273 | ||
5 | Västerås | Västmanland | 110,877 | 15 | Eskilstuna | Södermanland | 64,679 | ||
6 | Örebro | Örebro | 107,038 | 16 | Södertälje | Stockholm | 64,619 | ||
7 | Linköping | Östergötland | 104,232 | 17 | Karlstad | Värmland | 61,685 | ||
8 | Helsingborg | Skåne | 97,122 | 18 | Täby | Stockholm | 61,272 | ||
9 | Jönköping | Jönköping | 89,396 | 19 | Växjö | Kronoberg | 60,887 | ||
10 | Norrköping | Östergötland | 87,247 | 20 | Halmstad | Halland | 58,577 |
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