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  • Population......................................................................9,045,389 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................0.157% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................10.15 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
  • Death rate................................................10.24 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................1.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
  • Ethnic groups....................................................................indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
Member of what is now the European Union since 1995.

Sweden: Restrictive Immigration Policy and Multiculturalism
Although Sweden was once open to labor migrants from across Europe and refugees from all over the world, its policies have become increasingly restrictive over the last 35 years. Today, the country is wrestling with integration issues, as Charles Westin of the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Stockholm University, explains.

Sweden page on the World Migration Map

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Other Resources
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http://www.scb.se/default____2154.asp

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