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ACCORDING to preliminary estimates of the Central Office of Statistics, the population of Sweden in 1940 was 6,370,964. Comparison with the figure at the end of 1939 shows that the population has increased by about 30,000, corresponding to 4.68 per thousand. The growth of the population was split up as follows: 1,648 in the country, where there are at present 3,990,114 inhabitants, and 27,977 in the towns, where the population is now 2,380,850. Preliminary statistics for births and deaths during the past year show the following figures: 95,457 births and 72,584 deaths, that is, a surplus of births of 22,873, of which 12,927 were in the country. Lastly, there were 6,870 immigrants and 3,186 emigrants, giving a net surplus of 3,684.
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Population of Sweden. Nature 148, 406 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148406c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148406c0