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Sweden

 

United States

 Sweden
All information: Sweden
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:447,420 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:9,923,000 323,128,000
Official language:Schwedish English

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Politik

Government form:Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Federal presidential republic
Independent since:836 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Stockholm Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:22.2 32.9
Life expectancy males:80.4 years 76.3 years
Life expectancy females:84.1 years 81.2 years
Birthrate:11.80 ‰ 12.40 ‰
Deathrate:9.20 ‰ 8.40 ‰
Migrationrate:5.30 % 3.90 %


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)
 
Political stability:89 74
Civil rights:100 99
Health:84 70
Security:98 67
Climate:18 65
Cost of Living:40 33
Popularity:76 92


Economy

Currency:Swedish Kronen (1 SEK = 100 Öre) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:6.8 % 4.4 %
Inflation rate:0.98 % 1.26 %
Cost of Living:121.50 % 110.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:49.10 % 43.80 %
Average income:48,482 € 50,323 €
corruption index:84 (good) 75 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:455,395 Mio €45.89 M € 16,486,213 M €51.02 M €
Gross national product:481,070 Mio €48.48 M € 16,260,820 M €50.32 M €
Exported goods:197,458 M €19.90 M € 1,954,564 M €6.05 M €
Imported goods:178,358 M €17.97 M € 2,401,403 M €7.43 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:579,564 km58.41 km 6,586,610 km20.38 km
Railways:14,127 km1.42 km 293,564 km0.91 km
Waterways:2,052 km0.21 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:1900.019 3930.001
Airports:2310.023 13,5130.042


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:125.40 bn kWh12.64 m kWh 3,911.00 bn kWh12.10 m kWh
Energy production:154.30 bn kWh15.55 m kWh 4,088.00 bn kWh12.65 m kWh
Energy export:26.02 bn kWh2.62 m kWh 9.70 bn kWh30,003.64 kWh
Energy imports:14.29 bn kWh1.44 m kWh 80.66 bn kWh249,622.82 kWh
CO2 emissions:43.42 m t4,375.75 t 5.25 bn t16,260.70 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+46 +1
Internet domain:.se .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:3,328,371335 121,530,000376
Mobile phones:12,362,1911,246 416,684,0001,290
Internet server:5,978,000602 505,000,0001,563
Internet users:9,062,033913 246,147,996762



Climate

Detailed info for: Sweden and United States

Daytime temperatures:9.4 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:1.7 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:8.5 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:80 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:6 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:110.4 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:4.9 7.2


Native languages

Schwedish:89.5 % n/a
English:n/a 82.1 %
Spanish:0.6 % 10.7 %
Finnish:2.4 % n/a
North Slavic languages:1.3 % n/a
Arabic:0.8 % n/a
German:n/a 0.7 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Norwegian:0.5 % n/a
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:4.9 % 3.0 %


Religions

Christianity:87.0 % 78.5 %
Jewry:n/a 1.7 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
Islam:n/a 0.6 %
other:13.0 % 18.5 %