Sweden

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
9,982,709 1
Urban
87.40% 1
Rural
12.60% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
16.8% 2
Homicides
1.15 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
4 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
4 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.93 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.30% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
82 years 6
Internet Users
93% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$61,610 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
132,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
1.27
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
982
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
28
First Communions per Year
560
Confirmations per Year
595
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
573
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
466
Church Marriages per Year
195
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
86
Priests
179
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
140
Catholics per Priest
739
Parishes
52
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
2