Welcome to Sweden!

Sweden is one of the scandinavian countries located in Northern Europe. 

Demographics
Population: 8,865,051 (July 1997 est.)
Sweden has one of the highest Life expectancy rates at 79 years for the total population (76 years for men, 81 years for women), and one of the lowest Infant mortality rates at 3.9 deaths/1000 live births (1997 est.) in the world.  

Language
Swedish is the national language with small Lapp and Finnish speaking minorites.   Swedes are highly literate about 99% of total population can read and write.

Currency
Swedish krona (SKr) = 100 ore
Exchange rates: Swedish kronor (SKr) per US$1 -

Telecommunications and Utilities
A 1996 estimate had about 13 million telephones or about 1.5 telephones per capita.   The telephone system has excellent domestic and international facilities.    Domestically, coaxial and multiconducter cable carry most voice traffic, parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional telephone channels.   Internationally, there are 5 submarine coaxial cables and 3 satellite earth stations, Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), Eutelsat, and Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions).  The Inmarsat station is shared with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway).
Sweden has an electrical capacity of 35.46 million kW, while producing 147.7 billion kWh.

Trade
In 1995 Sweden reported exports valued at $79.9 billion and imports of $64.4 billion.   The exports are mostly made up of machinery, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals, petroleum and petroleum products.    While imports are machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, foodstuffs, iron and steel, and clothing.  The majority of its imports and exports go the EU countries (most notably Germany, UK, Denmark, and France)   followed by Norway, Finland, and the US.

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Information on Sweden

Swedish Government