Sweden
Sweden in numbers
38 measures of Sweden from 1751 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending2.47% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$15B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,549 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel15,000 people in 2020
- National power0.19% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.27% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports146 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports235 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Sweden with…
- Sweden vs India
- Sweden vs China
- Sweden vs United States
- Sweden vs Indonesia
- Sweden vs Pakistan
- Sweden vs Nigeria
- Sweden vs Brazil
- Sweden vs Bangladesh
- Sweden vs Russia
- Sweden vs Ethiopia
- Sweden vs Mexico
- Sweden vs Japan
- Sweden vs Egypt
- Sweden vs Philippines
- Sweden vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Sweden vs Vietnam
- Sweden vs Iran
- Sweden vs Türkiye
- Sweden vs Germany
- Sweden vs Thailand
- Sweden vs Tanzania
- Sweden vs United Kingdom
- Sweden vs France
- Sweden vs South Africa
- Sweden vs Italy
- Sweden vs Kenya
- Sweden vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Sweden vs Colombia
- Sweden vs South Korea
- Sweden vs Sudan
- Sweden vs Spain
- Sweden vs Argentina
- Sweden vs Canada
- Sweden vs Ukraine
- Sweden vs Uzbekistan
- Sweden vs Saudi Arabia
- Sweden vs Poland
- Sweden vs Australia
- Sweden vs Kazakhstan
- Sweden vs Romania
- Sweden vs Netherlands
- Sweden vs Belgium
- Sweden vs United Arab Emirates
- Sweden vs Czechia
- Sweden vs Portugal
- Sweden vs Tajikistan
- Sweden vs Greece
- Sweden vs Azerbaijan
- Sweden vs Israel
- Sweden vs Austria
- Sweden vs Switzerland
- Sweden vs Singapore
- Sweden vs Finland
- Sweden vs Norway
- Sweden vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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