SWEDEN

Capital Stockholm
Area (km2) 449 964
Total population (thousands, 2019) 10 279
Population density (per km2) 23
National currency Swedish krona (SEK)
National statistical office www.scb.se
Statistics Sweden
Women in the labour force, 2020
   percentage of total for both sexes 47%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2019 10%
   hourly wage, 2019 12%
Women in part-time employment, 2020
   percentage of employed women 33%
Female tertiary students, 2018
   percentage of total for both sexes 60%
Female victims of homicide, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 23%
Women researchers, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 33%
Life expectancy at birth, 2020
   females, years 84.2
   males, years 80.7
Life expectancy at 65, 2020
   females, years 21.4
   males, years 18.9
Total fertility rate, 2019
   average number of children per woman 1.7
Adolescent fertility rate, 2019
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 3.4
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2019
   age in years 29.5
 
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
1.5
1.9
2.5
1.6
0.6
-1.3
Unemployment rate
 (%)
7.4
7.0
6.7
6.4
6.8
8.3
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
20.4
18.9
17.9
17.4
20.1
23.9
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2020 568 545
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2020 54 914
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2020 44.6
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2020 40.0
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2020 38 772
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   SEK per USD, US=1, 2020 8.765
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 68
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 305

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Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2019 10 899
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2019 2 133
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2019 1 724
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2019 22
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2019 14 617
      million tonne-kilometres, 2019 22 717
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2011 109 198
      million tonne-kilometres, 2019 42 601