Sweden has almost nine million inhabitants. Most of them live in the larger cities. The northern part of the country, and the inland, is much more sparsly populated than the south, mainly due to the richer job supply and closer proximity to the continent.

If a girl is born in Sweden this year, it is a big chance that her parents will call her Julia, Emma, Wilma or Hanna, and the most popular names for boys are Filip, Oscar, William and Viktor.