- ISO 3166
SE- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
10.1M
0%world median 81%100%
96% of 10.6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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 2.2%
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Sweden
share of 10.6M people
- Swedishofficial95%10.1M
- English86%9.1M
- Finnishregional2.2%233K
- Tornedalen Finnish0.6%58.2K
- Northern Sami0.4%34.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Swedish in 4 territories and 13.3M speakers in total; Sweden holds 75% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Swedish profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (sv-SE).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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