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Area Brief
LAND
- Size: 173,000 sq. mi.
- Use: 8% arable, 1% meadows and pastures, 55% forested, 36% other.
- Land boundaries: 1,365 mi.
PEOPLE
- Population: 8,133,000, average annual growth rate 0.7% from 1960 to 1970.
- Ethnic divisions: Homogenous white population; small Lappish minority.
- Religion: 94% Evangelical Lutheran, 5% other Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, 1% other.
- Language: Swedish, small Lapp- and Finnish-speaking minorities.
- Literacy: 99.9%
- Labor force: 3.9 million; 11.8% agriculture, forestry, fishing; 33.5% mining and manufacturing; 9.5% construction; 15.5% commerce; 7.2% transportation and communications; 20.9% services; 2.8% unemployed.
- Organized labor: 80% of labor force.
GOVERNMENT
- Legal name: Kingdom of Sweden
- Type: Constitutional monarchy
- Capital: Stockholm
- Political subdivisions: 24 provinces, 624 communes, 224 towns.
- Legal system: Civil law system influenced by customary law; Acts of 1809, 1810, 1866, and 1949 serve as Constitution; legal education at Universities of Lund, Stockholm, and Uppsala; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
- Branches: Legislative authority rests jointly with Crown and parliament (Riksdag); executive power vested in Crown but exercised by cabinet responsible to parliament; Supreme Court, 6 superior courts, 108 lower courts
- Government leaders: King Gustav VI Adolf; Prime Minister Olof Palme
- Suffrage: Universal, but not compulsory, over age 20
- Elections: Every 3 years (next in 1973)
- Political parties and leaders: Moderate Coalition (conservative), Gosta Bohman; Center, Thorbjorn Falldin; Liberal, Gunnar Helen; Social Democratic, Olof Palme; Communist, Carl-Henrik Hermansson; Communist League of Marxists-Leninists (KFML), Gunnar Bylin
- Voting strength (1970 election): 11.5% Moderate Coalition, 19.9% Center, 16.2% Liberal, 45.3% Social Democratic, 4.8% Communist, 2.3% other
- Communists: 17,000; a number of sympathizers as indicated by the 236,700 Communist votes cast in 1970 elections; an additional 21,200 votes cast for Maoist KFML
- Member of: Council of Europe, EC (Draft Free Trade Agreement), EFTA, FAO, GATT, IAFA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFC, IHB, ILO, IMCO, IMF, ITU, Nordic Council, OECD, Seabeds Committee (observer), U.N., UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO
ECONOMY
- GNP: $37.8 billion, $4,650 per capita (1971); 53.5% consumption, 22.1% investment, 23.3% government; 1.1% net exports of goods and services; 1971 growth rate 0.3% in constant prices
- Agriculture: Animal husbandry predominates with milk and dairy products accounting for 40% of farm income; main crops—grains, sugar beets, potatoes; 80% self-sufficient; food shortages—oils and fats, tropical products; caloric intake, 2,880 calories per day per capita (1967-68)
- Major industries: Iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), shipbuilding, wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, textiles, chemicals
- Shortages: Coal, petroleum, textile fibers, potash, salt
- Crude steel: 5.3 million metric tons produced (1971), 650 kilograms per capita
- Electric power: 16.5 million kw. capacity (1971); 66.5 billion kw.-hr. produced (1971), 8.164 kw.-hr. per capita
- Exports: $7,932 million (f.o.b., 1971); machinery, motor vehicles and ship[s, wood pulp, paper products, iron and steel products, metal ores and scrap, chemicals
- Imports: $7,524 million (f.o.b., 1971); machinery, motor vehicles, petroleum and petroleum products, textile yarn and fabrics, iron and steel, chemicals, food, and live animals
- Major trade partners: (1971) West Germany 15.0%, U.K. 13.8%, U.S. 7.2%, Norway 8.3%, Denmark 9.0%; EFTA 42.4%; EC 29.7%; Communist countries 4.8%
- Aid: Economic—U.S., $206.4 million authorized (FY46-71); $18.5 million in 1971 net official aid to less developed countries and multilateral agencies, $662.4 million (1960-70), $71.4 million in 1968, $120.8 million in 1969, $154.6 million in 1970, $180 million in 1971
- Monetary conversion rate: 4.81 kronas = US$1 (central rate, 1971)
- Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
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