Population — national citizens

In 2021, Sweden's population increased by 0.9% compared to 2020, reaching 9,473,972.

Sweden accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

Sweden ranks 12th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.5% (from 9,068,184 in 2016).

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