According to Statistics Sweden, 104734 babies (51,4% boys) were born in Sweden last year: 9529 children less than in 2021, for a birth rate that fell by 8.3%. Sweden’s birth rate is the lowest in 17 years: Västmanland in central Sweden was the only county that had a positive birth rate: +6 children. The number of births also decreased in 215 out of 290 municipalities, compared to 2021. Twenty-two municipalities and two regions (Västernorrland and Norrbotten in northern Sweden) recorded the lowest number of births in over fifty years. The number of children born per woman is decreasing among Swedish-born and foreign-born women alike: the pattern is the same in Norway and Denmark. Despite it all, last year Sweden’s total population increased by 0.7% to 10,5 million people, mainly because of immigration (75% of cases) but also because there were more births than deaths.
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