Population — national citizens

In 2007, Sweden's population increased by 0.6% compared to 2006, reaching 8,621,261.

Sweden ranks 12th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.2% (from 8,433,142 in 2002).

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