Now fit ten million in the ‘little Sweden” – Aftonbladet

Population. The historical figure is reached. In Sweden and now lives ten million people, according to statistics SWEDEN’s “befolkningsklocka” struck on the clock 7.47.

Is it perhaps time to stop calling Sweden a small country?

tiomiljonte resident can be a newborn child folkbokförts in Sweden. Or someone who grew up here, moved out and returned. Or an asylum seeker or a student or migrant workers who are granted a residence permit.

To know exactly when we passed tiomiljonersstrecket is in practice impossible, according to Statistics sweden (SCB). Partly because of the delays of certain reported data, and for that time is missing for many of the decisions that affect how many are registered as residents in Sweden.

However, SCB believes now, with a korttidsprognos in the back, that it all took place at 7.47 on Friday.

Worn cliché

Politicians and business people highlights the like that Sweden is “a small country”. But is slentrianklyschan of “little Sweden” really relevant for a tiomiljonersland?

the How often you hear “little Belgium”, “little Greece”, the “little Portugal”, “little Czech” or “little Hungary”?

There is in the league Sweden are playing now. Among countries with a population around ten-eleven million.

in Addition, of the EU’s 28 members have 14 fewer inhabitants than Sweden.

the economist Jonas Frycklund at the confederation of Swedish enterprise means the speech of a small country, a way to describe Sweden’s dependence on other major markets, with an export quota of 45 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015.

– this term, “a small, export-dependent country”, have been around for a long time, ” he says.

at the same time, globalisation has done to other “small” countries also started to export more.

– So, Sweden has in recent years lost market share accelerated.

Both

Sweden are both large and small, considers Anders Ekholm, who is a vice president at the Institute for prospective technological studies.

– We are small compared with the really big countries, like those in the G7 group. But in the EU, Sweden is rather a medium-sized country, he notes.

Population – where are we on the 89th place in the world – is one thing. To the surface, Sweden is the 57th most, of our GDP occupies the seat 24 and with regard to gender equality, we are a global giant.

– We are a great nation in many great respects and a rather small nation in many bad ways, summarizes Anders Ekholm.

the FACTS

Statistics since 1749

Statistics sweden (SCB) has only the population statistics since 1749. Then comprised the population of a modest 1 764 724 inhabitants.

1863 we were four million, and in 1923 we passed the six million inhabitants. In 1969 it was time for eight million, and now we are ten million.

According to the latest forecast assumed population growth continue. 2024 is expected to reach eleven million and 2040, the population have increased by a further million. But the further forward in time the projections apply, the more uncertain they become.

Source: statistics SWEDEN

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January 20, 201706:58