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Sweden in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Stockholm · Region: Europe & Central Asia · Income group: High income

Sweden recorded GDP per capita: 63,133 (2025), ranking 20 of 212 worldwide; Population: 10.60 million (2025), ranking 92 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 84.1 (2024), ranking 9 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 0.68% (2025), ranking 160 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, Internet users shows the largest increase (+16298%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-88%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

Across the measures below it sits above the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 14 of 19 comparable series are higher and 4 are lower.

Its population of 10.60 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
GDP668,998,664,082.082025+4099.6%
GDP per capita63,133.212025+2866.3%
GDP growth1.54%2025-72.8%
Population10,596,6202025+41.6%
Population growth0.25%2025-46.0%
Urban population89.08%2025+22.9%
Inflation0.68%2025-83.6%
Life expectancy84.062024+15.1%
Infant mortality22024-87.7%
CO2 per capita3.572024-70.1%
GDP (PPP)768,561,078,543.322025+341.1%
GDP per capita (PPP)72,528.892025+256.3%
Labor participation64.6%2025-3.6%
Internet users95.77%2025+16298.3%
Unemployment8.69%2025+168.1%
Electricity access100%20240.0%
Health spending11.22%2024+53.1%
Forest area68.7%2023-0.3%
Education spending7.32%2022+14.7%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.