Demographics of Sweden
| Demographics of Sweden | |
|---|---|
Population pyramid of Sweden in 2025 | |
| Population | 10,605,500 (31 December 2025) |
| Growth rate | 0.3% (2025 est.) |
| Birth rate | 10.83 births/1,000 population (2022) |
| Death rate | 9.46 deaths/1,000 population (2022) |
| Life expectancy | 82.8 years |
| • male | 82.29 years (2025) |
| • female | 85.35 years (2025) |
| Fertility rate | 1.42 children born/woman (2025 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | 2.3 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Net migration rate | 1.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2025 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 (Native) |
| Minor ethnic | |
| Language | |
| Official | Swedish |
| Spoken | Swedish, others |
The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,605,500 (31 December 2025), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Portugal, the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union, and the 89th-most populous country in the world. The total fertility rate was rated at 1.43 in 2024, which is far below the replacement rate of 2.1.
The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday, 20 January 2017. The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically non-Swedish 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.
Statistics Sweden projects a Swedish population of 12.6 million in 2070.