King: Carl XVI Gustaf Prime minister: Fredrik Reinfeldt
Population
313,847,465
9,103,788
Life Expectancy
78.490 years
81.180 years
Capital City
Washington, DC
Stockholm
Largest city
New York City (population: 8,008,280)
Stockholm (population: 1,253,310)
Human Development Index
0.95
0.958
GDP per capita
$49,000 US
$40,900 US
Literacy Rate
99%
99%
Corruption Perception Index
7.3
9.3
Percentage of Women in Parliament
16.6%
47%
Wealthiest Citizens
William Gates III ($40.0bn US)
Ingvar Kamprad & family ($22.0bn US)
Unemployment Rate
9.000%
7.500%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished
Political System
Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition
constitutional monarchy
Independence date
4 July 1776 (from Great Britain)
6 June 1523 (Gustav VASA elected king)
Religions
Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.)
Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist) 13%
Languages
English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii
Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals
External Debt
$14,710,000,000,000 $
$1,016,000,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
Swedish kronor (SEK) per US dollar - 6.4074 (2008 est.), 6.7629 (2007), 7.3731 (2006), 7.4731 (2005), 7.3489 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
4.060%
1.500%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
110
5
Location
North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway
Area
9,826,675 km sq
450,295 km sq
Coastline
19,924 km
3,218 km
Climate
mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north
