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Sweden

 

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 Sweden
All information: Sweden
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:447,430 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:10,285,000 328,240,000
Official language:Swedish English

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Government

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


Population

Inhabitants per km²:23.0 33.4
Life expectancy males:80.9 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:84.3 years 81.1 years
Average age:41.0 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:11.40 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:9.10 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:5.20 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:88 73
Civil rights:100 83
Health:87 74
Climate:18 64
Cost of Living:21 23
Popularity:53 85


Economy

Currency:Swedish Krone (1 SEK = 100 Öre) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:6.7 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:1.78 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:112.30 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:49.10 % 36.60 %
Average income:49,826 € 58,821 €
Corruption index:85 (good) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:474,215 Mio €46.11 M € 19,145,356 M €58.33 M €
Gross national product:512,524 Mio €49.83 M € 19,308,457 M €58.82 M €
Exported goods:224,613 M €21.84 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:207,737 M €20.20 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:573,134 km55.72 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:14,127 km1.37 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:2,052 km0.20 km 41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:3600.035 3,6730.011
Airports:2310.022 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:133.50 bn kWh12.98 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:152.90 bn kWh14.87 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:26.02 bn kWh2.53 m kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:14.29 bn kWh1.39 m kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:43.25 m t4,205.19 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+46 +1
Internet domain:.se .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:1,924,972187 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:12,678,3741,233 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:5,978,000581 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:9,719,079945 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:2.60 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:5.40 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:4.8 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.1 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:78.0 % 79.0 %
Smokers:28.8 % 25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Sweden and United States

Daytime temperatures:9.5 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:1.7 °C 7.3 °C
Water temperature:8.4 °C 17.7 °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:5.0 7.2


Native languages

Swedish: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
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
Arabic:0.8 % n/a
French:n/a 0.7 %
German: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 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Russian:n/a 0.2 %
other:4.9 % 2.6 %


Religions

Christianity:87.0 % 78.5 %
Jewry:0.2 % 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Islam:n/a 1.1 %
Hinduism:n/a 1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:12.8 % 15.3 %