In 2023, approximately 988,943 people lived in Stockholm, making it not only the capital, but also the biggest city in Sweden. The second biggest city, Gothenburg (Göteborg) had about half as many inhabitants, with about 596,840 people. Move to the citySweden is a country with a very high urbanization rate, the likes of which is usually only seen in countries with large uninhabitable areas, such as Australia, or in nations with very little rural landscape and agrarian structures, like Cuba. So why do so few Swedes live in rural areas, even though based on total area, the country is one of the largest in Europe? The total population figures are the answer to this question, as Sweden has only about 10.3 million inhabitants as of 2018 – that’s only 25 inhabitants per square kilometer. Rural exodus or just par for the course?It is no mystery why most Swedes flock to the cities: Jobs, of course. Over 65 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product is generated by the services sector, and agriculture only contributes about one percent to the GDP. Employment mirrors this, with 80 percent of the workforce being deployed in services, namely in foreign trade, telecommunications, and manufacturing, among other industries.

Population in largest city in Sweden was reported at 1719604 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Sweden - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Sweden SE: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 17.703 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 17.683 % for 2016. Sweden SE: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 15.683 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 17.703 % in 2017 and a record low of 14.346 % in 1981. Sweden SE: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; Weighted average;

Sweden SE: Population in Largest City data was reported at 1,553,180.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,523,953.000 Person for 2016. Sweden SE: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 1,058,018.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,553,180.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 804,595.000 Person in 1960. Sweden SE: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; ;

Stockholm was ranked as the best city for startups in Sweden in 2023, with a total score of 33.46. Malmö followed in second with a score of 4.78, followed by Gothenburg. That year, Sweden was ranked as the second best country for startups in Europe and the fifth best worldwide.

Of the total population in Sweden of 10.55 million people, around half resided in the counties Stockholm, Västra Götaland or Skåne. This is also the three counties where the three largest cities in Sweden, Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö, are located. In the capital region Stockholm county, there lived nearly 2.5 million inhabitants in 2023. Västra Götaland county had close to 1.8 million inhabitants, while Skåne county, the southernmost region, had roughly 1.4 million inhabitants. The island Gotland had the lowest number of inhabitants with only 60,000.

The highest population density

Stockholm, Skåne and Västra Götaland were also the three counties in Sweden with the highest population density. In 2022, 374.6 inhabitants per square kilometer lived in Stockholm county, while the corresponding figures for Skåne and Västra Götaland were 129 and 73.9, respectively.

The highest rents

Unsurprisingly. Stockholm county is the county in Sweden with the highest rents for rented dwellings, with average prices for one square meter amounting to over 1,400 Swedish kronor in 2022. The lowest average renting prices were in the northwestern region Jämtland, one square meter costing 1,000 Swedish kronor.

This horizontal bar chart displays death rate (per 1,000 people) by capital city using the aggregation average, weighted by population in Sweden. The data is about countries per year.

This horizontal bar chart displays rural land area (km²) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Sweden. The data is about countries per year.

We release metagenomic data of seven urban, eutrophic Swedish lakes that have been extensively studied and characterized in terms of biogeochemistry. Here we provide the supplementary tables and the full set of metagenome-assembled genomes of 17 metagenomic samples. - We have 10 metagenomic samples from Lake Mälaren which is the third largest lake in Sweden and serves as the main drinking water supply to ~1.5 million residents in Stockholm and neighboring cities. This dataset is the first insight into the bacterial dynamics of Lake Mälaren during the summer seasonal gradient (early July – late August 2021). - We sampled two additional lakes (Trehoringen and Langsjön) in Uppsala to compare summer microbial communities in lakes in Central Sweden. - Additionally, we sequenced, assembled and binned microbial communities in five Swedish lakes in the urban Stockholm-Uppsala region from 2002 that were previously characterized using older techniques (Eiler and Bertilsson, 2004). These five highly eutrophic lakes have a long history of seasonal cyanobacterial blooms in the summer (Eiler and Bertilsson, 2004). Our goal was to collect and sequence data that could be used to generate hypothesis and preliminary view of microbial community or urban lakes around Stockholm with special emphasis on Lake Mälaren which proved drinking water to millions of people. In these data we release 17 shot-gun metagenomes in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and are accessible under project number PRJEB54817. Moreover, in this repository we provide the 2378 MAGs that include the 514 species representative genomes (SRG, calculated

Shared mobility fleets in Swedish cities were dominated by scooters in 2022. Helsingborg has one of the largest scooter fleets by population, with 157 scooters per 10,000 inhabitants as well as 23 free-floating bikes per 10,000 inhabitants.

According to a 2019 report, findings show that online shopping behavior in the combined categories of pharmaceutical and beauty goods differed in the three largest cities of Sweden, namely Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, compared to the rest of the country. Bigger cities shared showed a higher preference for online purchases of both beauty and pharmaceutical goods at 38 percent compared to rest of the country at 33 percent. When it came to beauty goods alone, big cities took the lead by 20 percent over the rest of Sweden. Pharmacy goods also saw a similar purchase popularity online, with slightly over one fifth of all Swedes purchasing them.

The aim of this study is to throw light on why inequality in the distribution of income in Sweden fell from the mid-1920s to the second part of the 1950s. For this reason the project decided to collect income information referring to different years from a sample of households for one Swedish city. A database was created by coding tax records and other documents for the city of Göteborg, the second largest city in Sweden.

The determination of which years to investigate was critical. For analysing changes over time it was thought as essential to have roughly equal numbers of years between years studied. Further, it was thought advisable to avoid years with too much macroeconomic turmoil as well as the years of the two World Wars. Balancing the resources for the data collection between the size of a sub sample and the number of subsamples, it was decided to assemble data for four years. The years 1925, 1936, 1947 and 1958 was chosen to investigate. It should be pointed out that the year 1947 was preferred to the following years as large social insurance reforms leading to increases in pension benefits and the introduction of child allowances were put in effect in 1948.

Household is defined from registers kept in the archives (Mantalslängder). A household is defined as persons with the same surname living in the same apartment or single-family house. This means that there can be people belonging to more than two generations in the same household; siblings living together can make up a household as well. Foster children are included as long as they are registred at the same address. Adult children are considered to be living in the household of their parents as long as they are registred at the same address. In almost all cases, servants and tenants not belonging to the household are treated as separate households.

This study, carried out by the Swedish Institute of Public Opinion Research (SIFO) at the request of the news program Rapport at TV2, deals with the respondent´s attitudes toward inner-city tolls and also toward regulations of the traffic in big cities as Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö, and in the respondent´s own town or municipality. The respondent also had to indicate the consequences of motor traffic on public transport, and if one has to accept a poorer environment in consequence of motorism. Background variables include information on gender, place of living, age, Swedish citizenship, occupation, private or public sector, trade union, right to vote in general elections, voting habit, political party preference and party voted for in 1988.

The purpose of this project was to investigate what influence the development pattern in the cities and towns have for citizens' transportation needs, selection of transport and energy use for transportation. This issue is addressed through five empirical studies that cover different geographical levels: - A comprehensive study of 22 Nordic towns - An extensive, but not so in-depth study of the 97 largest cities in Sweden - A study of commuting areas around 15 Swedish cities - A study of households in 30 residential areas in Oslo - A survey of employees at six workplaces in Oslo.

This dataset includes data from the first study, a comprehensive study of 22 nordic towns.

The aim of this study is to throw light on why inequality in the distribution of income in Sweden fell from the mid-1920s to the second part of the 1950s. For this reason the project decided to collect income information referring to different years from a sample of households for one Swedish city. A database was created by coding tax records and other documents for the city of Göteborg, the second largest city in Sweden.

The determination of which years to investigate was critical. For analysing changes over time it was thought as essential to have roughly equal numbers of years between years studied. Further, it was thought advisable to avoid years with too much macroeconomic turmoil as well as the years of the two World Wars. Balancing the resources for the data collection between the size of a sub sample and the number of subsamples, it was decided to assemble data for four years. The years 1925, 1936, 1947 and 1958 was chosen to investigate. It should be pointed out that the year 1947 was preferred to the following years as large social insurance reforms leading to increases in pension benefits and the introduction of child allowances were put in effect in 1948.

Household is defined from registers kept in the archives (Mantalslängder). A household is defined as persons with the same surname living in the same apartment or single-family house. This means that there can be people belonging to more than two generations in the same household; siblings living together can make up a household as well. Foster children are included as long as they are registred at the same address. Adult children are considered to be living in the household of their parents as long as they are registred at the same address. In almost all cases, servants and tenants not belonging to the household are treated as separate households.

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Syftet med studien var att belysa varför ojämlikhet i inkomst minskade från mitten på 1920-talet till andra hälften av 1950-talet.

Objectives: To compare cardiovascular risk factors as well as rates of cardiovascular diseases in middle-aged women from urban areas in Scotland and Sweden. Design: Comparative cross-sectional study. Setting: Data from the general population in urban areas of Scotland and the general population in two major Swedish cities in southeast Sweden, south of Stockholm. Participants: Comparable data of middle-aged women (40–65 years) from the Scottish Health Survey (n=6250) and the Swedish QWIN study (n=741) were merged together into a new dataset (n=6991 participants). Main outcome measure: We compared middle-aged women in urban areas in Sweden and Scotland regarding risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), CVD diagnosis, anthropometrics, psychological distress and lifestyle. Results: In almost all measurements, there were significant differences between the countries, favouring the Swedish women. Scottish women demonstrated a higher frequency of alcohol consumption, smoking, obesity, low vegetable consumption, a sedentary lifestyle and also more psychological distress. For doctor-diagnosed coronary heart disease, there were also significant differences, with a higher prevalence among the Scottish women. Conclusions: This is one of the first studies that clearly shows that Scottish middle-aged women are particularly affected by a worse profile of CVD risks. The profound differences in CVD risk and outcome frequency in the two populations are likely to have arisen from differences in the two groups of women's social, cultural, political and economic environments.

Dagens Nyheter was the most read daily city newspaper in Sweden in 2024, with 1.05 million people reading the paper published by Bonnier either in print form or online. The second most popular city newspaper was Svenska Dagbladet with 729 thousand readers.

The Swedish capital Stockholm has the largest population of the five Nordic capitals with 2.46 million inhabitants. This is unsurprising as Sweden also is the Nordic country with the largest population. The capital area of Copenhagen is slightly larger than that of Helsinki, whereas Iceland's capital Reykjavik had the smallest population with 244,000 inhabitants. Oslo's rapid population decline in 2024 is explained by only the numbers for Oslo municipality being reported.

Malaysia Tourist Arrival: Sightseeing In Cities: Sweden data was reported at 91.000 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 74.300 % for 2014. Malaysia Tourist Arrival: Sightseeing In Cities: Sweden data is updated yearly, averaging 83.100 % from Dec 2001 (Median) to 2015, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 95.900 % in 2013 and a record low of 17.600 % in 2003. Malaysia Tourist Arrival: Sightseeing In Cities: Sweden data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Tourism Malaysia. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Malaysia – Table MY.Q009: Tourist Arrivals By Major Activities Engaged.

In Sweden, the Region of Stockholm had the highest number of police officers in 2022. This comes as no surprise as this is also the most populous of the regions. The regions South and West, where the second and third largest cities Malmö and Gothenburg are located, had the second highest number of police officers. In total, there were nearly 22,000 police officers in Sweden that year.