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National name: Konungariket Sverige

Current government officials

Language: Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities

Ethnicity/race: indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks

Religions: Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist

Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.)

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2011 est.): $384.7 billion; per capita $40,700. Real growth rate: 4%. Inflation: 3%. Unemployment: 7.5%. Arable land: 6%. Agriculture: barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk. Labor force: 5.018 million; agriculture 1.1%, industry 28.2%, services 70.7% (2008 est.). Industries: iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles. Natural resources: zinc, iron ore, lead, copper, silver, timber, uranium, hydropower. Exports: $189.1 billion (2011 est.): machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals. Imports: $176.1 billion (2011 est.): machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing. Major trading partners: U.S., Germany, Norway, UK, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, China (2011).

Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 4.6 million (2011); mobile cellular: 11.194 million (2011). Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 265, shortwave 1 (2008). Radios: 8.25 million (1997). Television broadcast stations: 169 (plus 1,299 repeaters) (1995). Televisions: 4.6 million (1997). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5.978 million (2010). Internet users: 8.398 million (2009).

Transportation: Railways: total: 11,633 km (2008). Highways: total: 572,900 km; (including 1,855 km of expressways); (2009). Waterways: 2,052 km navigable for small steamers and barges (2010). Ports and harbors: Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Hudiksvall, Kalmar, Karlshamn, Malmo, Solvesborg, Stockholm, Sundsvall. Airports: 230 (2012).

International disputes: none.

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