page_title: Demographics of Sweden
section_title: Historical fertility rates from 1630 to 1900
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Sweden / Historical fertility rates from 1630 to 1900
context_page_description: The total resident population of Sweden was 10,343,403 in March 2020. The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday 20 January 2017. The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse over the past 70 years as a result of global immigration. Every fourth resident in the country has immigrant background and every third has at least one parent born abroad.
context_section_description: The total fertility rate is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.
caption: Estimated birth rate (blue) and death rate in Sweden for the period of 1735 to 2000. The graph indicates strong population growth for the period of 1800 to 1970, and a beginning population decline from the 1980s.
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