People of Sweden
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 13–14 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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 Finland
|
c. 280,000 (2011) |
 Estonia
|
300 (2000) |
| Swedish citizens abroad | c. 546,000 |
| Swedish diaspora | c. 5.1 million |
 United States
|
4,325,000 |
 Canada
|
341,845 (2011) |
 Argentina
|
200,000 |
 United Kingdom
|
100,000 |
 Norway
|
36,887–90,000 |
 Australia
|
30,375 (2006) |
 France
|
30,000 |
 Germany
|
23,000 |
 Spain
|
16,838 |
 New Zealand
|
1,404 (2013) |
| Languages | |
| Swedish | |
| Religion | |
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Lutheranism (the Church of Sweden) For further details, see Religion in Sweden |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
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Danes, Norwegians, Dutch, Germans,Finns, Faroese, Icelanders Other Germanic peoples |
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^a The total figure is merely an estimation; sum of all the referenced populations. ^b Since there are no official statistics regarding ethnicity in Sweden, the number does not include ethnic Swedes who were born abroad but now repatriated to Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking Finns in Sweden; est. for year 2015. ^c This figure overlaps with those listed under diaspora as most Swedish citizens have emigrated to those countries listed lower in the infobox. |
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Sweden c. 8 million
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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