Foreign-born population in Sweden 2018, by region of origin

Published by Agnete Lundetræ Jürgensen, May 27, 2019
This statistic shows the number of foreign-born inhabitants in Sweden in 2018, by region of origin. In 2018 people from Asia formed the biggest group of foreign-born inhabitants in Sweden with 745,271 people.

Foreign-born population in Sweden in 2018, by region of origin

Number of inhabitants
Asia 745,271
EU28 except the Nordic countries369,743
The Nordic countries, excluding Sweden 235,633
Africa 219,914
South America 72,467
Europe except EU28 and the Nordic countries259,177
North America 40,116
Oceania 6,236
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Release date

February 2019

Region

Sweden

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

Inhabitants with foreign background are defined as people born outside of Sweden or people born in Sweden but whose both parents are foreign. Inhabitants of Swedish origin are defined as people who were born in Sweden and whose one or both parents are born in the country as well.

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