- ISO 3166
SE- Primary locale
sv-SE- Currency
- SEK · Swedish Krona
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · Nordics
Sweden
Sweden has 10.6M people, and 10.1M of them are online. Swedish is the most widely spoken language at 95%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Swedish is official nationally, and Finnish is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to sv-SE.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
10.1M
0%world median 81%100%
96% of 10.6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$63,133
Higher than 91% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
99%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Swedish 95% · English 86% · Finnish 2%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
609
Very lowVery high
Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
99%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Sweden
share of 10.6M people
- Swedishofficial95%10.1M
- English86%9.1M
- Finnishregional2%233K
- Tornedalen Finnish0.6%58.2K
- Northern Sami0.3%34.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against sv-SE, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 april 2026
Short: 2026-04-21
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 kr
1,234.56 in SEK · Swedish Krona