In the end of last year, 10,587,700 people were registered in Sweden. This is an increase of approximately 36,000 people or 0.3 percent compared to the year before, writes the Statistics Sweden in a press release.
The main explanation for the population increase was that more people immigrated than emigrated. Additionally, the number of births was greater than the number of deaths.
Last year, 98,500 children were born, a decrease of 1,600 children compared to 2023. Of the children born last year, 51.4 percent were boys and 48.6 percent were girls.
"Not since 2002 have fewer children been born in Sweden", says Guadalupe Andersson, population statistician at SCB in the press release.
