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The population density is just over 25 people per km 2 (65 per square mile), with 1,437 persons per km 2 in localities (continuous settlement with at least 200 inhabitants). [14], [15] 87% of the population live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area. [16] 63% of Swedes are in large urban areas. [16]
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
This era saw mass emigration from Scandinavia following a population increase that the region's existing infrastructure could not support. Many prevailing traditions observed by Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are from this era, and are reflective of the lifestyle of rural immigrant communities during the late 19th century.
From 1349 to 1500 the population was approximately halved by several rounds of the black plague, down to approximately 250,000. The first official census for the then Denmark-Norway kingdom union was held in 1769 and found the Norwegian population to be 723 000.
The total population in the age group 80 and over grew by 12,844 people, or 4.4%., from 2022 to 2023. [6] During 2022, the Danish population grew by 59,234 people, so the population on January 1, 2023, consisted of 5,932,654 people. It was a population increase of 1.0 percent, which is higher than in 2021, when the population increase was 0.6 ...
Finland has a population of over 5.6 million people, ranking it 19th out of 27 within the European Union. The average population density in Finland is 19 inhabitants per square kilometre (49/sq mi), making it the third most sparsely populated country in Europe, after Iceland and Norway. Population distribution is extremely uneven, with the ...
The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.The colony was lost to the Dutch in 1655. [3]Between 1846 and 1930, roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population, left the country.
The Norwegian population is typical of the Northern European population with Haplogroup I1 being the most common Y-haplogroup, at about 37,3%. [39] [40] Norwegians also show the characteristic R1a genes of the paternal ancestorship at 17.9% [41] to 30.8%. [42] Such large frequencies of R1a have been found only in East Europe and India. [43]