Country comparison: United Kingdom / Sweden

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for the United Kingdom and Sweden. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	United Kingdom	Sweden
Region:	Northern Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	243,610 km²	447,430 km²
Official language:	English	Swedish
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1066 AD	836 AD
Capital:	London	Stockholm

Population

Details for the United Kingdom and Sweden

	United Kingdom	Sweden
Population:	67,327,000	10,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	276.4	23.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 40.6 years	Ø 41.1 years
Birth rate:	10.10 ‰	11.00 ‰
Death rate:	9.70 ‰	8.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	3.23 ‰	3.79 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	United Kingdom	Sweden
Political stability:	74	85
Civil rights:	90	100
Health:	77	86
Climate:	6	22
Cost of Living:	34	42
Popularity:	43	38

Economy

Details for the United Kingdom and Sweden

	United Kingdom	Sweden
Currency:	Sterling pound (1 GBP = 100 Pence)	Swedish krone (1 SEK =100 Öre)
Unemployment rate:	3.6 %	7.4 %
Inflation rate:	7.92 %	8.37 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	95.54 %	96.11 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	30.60 %	49.10 %
Average income:	44,480 US$	59,540 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	103.79 %	36.81 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	102.97 %	39.31 %
Corruption index:	27 (good)	17 (good)

	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,131,378 M US$	46.51 M US$	635,664 M US$	61.03 M US$
Gross national product:	2,994,732 M US$	44.48 M US$	620,154 M US$	59.54 M US$
Exported goods:	899,171 M US$	13.36 M US$	290,620 M US$	27.90 M US$
Imported goods:	937,734 M US$	13.93 M US$	263,340 M US$	25.28 M US$
Budget surplus:	-61,440 M US$	-0.91 M US$	4,323 M US$	0.42 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for the United Kingdom and Sweden

	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	394,428 km	5.86 km	573,134 km	55.03 km
Railways:	16,837 km	0.25 km	9,701 km	0.93 km
Waterways:	3,200 km	0.05 km	2,052 km	0.20 km
Harbours:	1,249	0.0186	370	0.0355
Passenger airports:	59	0.0009	40	0.0038

Energy balance

Details for the United Kingdom and Sweden

	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	991.22 bn kWh	14.72 m kWh	381.05 bn kWh	36.58 m kWh
Energy consumption:	289.69 bn kWh	4.30 m kWh	124.61 bn kWh	11.96 m kWh
Energy production:	299.52 bn kWh	4.45 m kWh	160.04 bn kWh	15.37 m kWh
Energy export:	4.48 bn kWh	66,556.19 kWh	36.82 bn kWh	3.54 m kWh
Energy imports:	22.39 bn kWh	332,573.01 kWh	11.83 bn kWh	1.14 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	348.92 m t	5,182.53 t	35.00 m t	3,360.44 t

Telecommunication

Details for the United Kingdom and Sweden

	United Kingdom	Sweden
International dialing:	+44	+46
Internet domain:	.uk	.se

	GBR total	GBR per 1000 inh.	SWE total	SWE per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	32,192,000	478	1,382,146	133
Mobile cellulars:	79,773,000	1185	12,843,683	1233
Internet server:	8,107,000	120	5,978,000	574
Internet users:	63,837,842	948	9,197,972	883
Broadband Internet:	27,738,724	412	4,253,442	408

Healthcare system

Details for the United Kingdom and Sweden

	United Kingdom	Sweden
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.46	2.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.81	5.40
Diabetes:	3.9 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.06 ‰	0.04 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	72.0 %
Smokers:	15.4 %	24.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: United Kingdom and Sweden

	United Kingdom	Sweden
Daytime temperatures:	12.9 °C	9.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.0 °C	2.6 °C
Water temperature:	10.1 °C	7.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	85 %	79 %
Rain days:	13.0	9.2
Sunshine hours per day:	3.8	5.1

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
United Kingdom
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Native languages

	United Kingdom	Sweden
English:	97.3 %	n/a
Swedish:	n/a	89.5 %
Finnish:	n/a	2.4 %
North Slavic languages:	n/a	1.3 %
Kymri:	0.9 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	0.8 %
Spanish:	n/a	0.6 %
Norwegian:	n/a	0.5 %
Gaelic:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	1.7 %	4.9 %

Religions

	United Kingdom	Sweden
State religion:	England: Church of England (Anglican), Scotland: Church of Scotland (Calvinist)	none
Christianity:	67.0 %	87.0 %
Nondenominational:	25.7 %	n/a
Islam:	4.4 %	n/a
Hinduism:	1.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.4 %	0.2 %
Sikhism:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	0.8 %	12.8 %

Data inventory and updates

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