Population — national citizens

In 2003, Sweden's population increased by 0.4% compared to 2002, reaching 8,466,689.

Sweden ranks 10th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.7% (from 8,325,576 in 1998).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.