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Geography

Location: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway

Area:
total area: 449,964 sq km
land area: 410,928 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than California

Land boundaries: total 2,205 km, Finland 586 km, Norway 1,619 km

Coastline: 3,218 km


People

Population: 8,821,759 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 810,859; male 854,553)
15-64 years: 64% (female 2,761,060; male 2,856,012)
65 years and over: 17% (female 887,597; male 651,678)

Population growth rate: 0.46% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.19 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.84 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 2.27 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 5.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.43 years
male: 75.64 years
female: 81.39 years

Total fertility rate: 1.97 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: white, Lapp (Sami), foreign born or first-generation immigrants 12%(Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks)

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 94%, Roman Catholic 1.5%, Pentecostal 1%, other3.5% (1987)

Languages: Swedish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991 est.)
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Sweden
conventional short form: Sweden

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Stockholm

Independence: 6 June 1809 (constitutional monarchy established)

Constitution: 1 January 1975


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $163.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.4%

National product per capita: $18,580

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5%

Unemployment rate: 8.8%

Electricity:
capacity: 34,560,000 kW
production: 141 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 14,891 kWh



Olympic Factoid
An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games.