World population/Sweden
Europe
Population of Sweden
10,701,038
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#91
world rank
0.13%
of world population
+0.38%
yearly change
+40,217
people this year
96,301
births a year
97,656
deaths a year
How the figure for Sweden is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Sweden at 10,701,038 on 1 July 2026, and projects 10,741,255 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Sweden at number 91 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.13 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 96,301 births and 97,656 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.