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Swedish people

Swedish people
svenskar
Regions with significant populations

 Sweden:      c. 10,000,000 (the number does not include ethnic Swedes born outside Sweden but now living in Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking population of Finland now living in Sweden; 2015)

Other significant population centers:
Swedish-speaking ethnic minorities
 Finland

c. 280,000

Swedish citizens
outside Sweden

c. 546,000

People with Swedish ancestry
 United States 4,325,000
 Canada 341,845 (2011 Census)
 Argentina 200,000
 United Kingdom 100,000
 Spain 90,000
 Norway 36,887-90,000
 Brazil 32,975
 Australia 30,375
 France 30,000
 Germany 23,000
 New Zealand 1,257
 Estonia 380
Languages
Swedish
Religion
Mainly Christian:
majority Lutheranism, minority Catholicism
Historically Catholicism
and Norse paganism before Christianization
See also: Religion in Sweden
Related ethnic groups
Danes, Norwegians, Dutch, Germans,Finns, Faroese, Icelanders
Other Germanic peoples

 Sweden:      c. 10,000,000 (the number does not include ethnic Swedes born outside Sweden but now living in Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking population of Finland now living in Sweden; 2015)

c. 280,000

c. 546,000

Swedes (Swedish: svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.

The English term "Swede" has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. In Swedish, the term is svensk, which is believed to have been derived from the name of svear (or Swedes), the people who inhabited Svealand in eastern central Sweden, and were listed as Suiones in Tacitus' history Germania from the 1st century AD. The term is believed to have been derived from the Proto-Indo-European reflexive pronominal root, *s(w)e, as the Latin suus. The word must have meant "one's own (tribesmen)". The same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia.


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