Population — national citizens

In 2011, Sweden's population increased by 0.5% compared to 2010, reaching 8,782,278.

Sweden ranks 12th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.5% (from 8,567,853 in 2006).

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