Here we describe the SweGen data set, a comprehensive map of genetic variation in the Swedish population. These data represent a basic resource for clinical genetics laboratories as well as for ...

It is often taken for granted that an ageing population will lead to an increased burden for the health care sector. However, for several diseases of big public health impact the rates have actually ...

The Swedish population passed the 9.5m mark during the first half of 2012, and is set to continue growing, according to Statistics Sweden. The population increase was mainly attributable to ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden needs more immigrants not fewer to sustain its cradle-to-grave welfare system and care for an ageing population, a senior official at the state employment service told ...

The number of people registered as leaving Sweden boomed in the first half of this year, but why is that? Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT In the first half of 2024, Sweden’s population grew by just 1,600 – ...

Crowds on the Drottninggatan shopping street in Stockholm in December last year. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT Sweden last year had the lowest net population growth in 15 years, while December was the ...

A man wearing a face mask waits for a bus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua) Sweden last year recorded the lowest population growth in 15 ...

Sweden began its annual wolf hunt this week, allowing nearly 10% of the endangered species population to be killed, as conservationists raise concerns about the controversial policy. Since 2010, ...

Nordic countries still have some of the highest fertility rates in Europe Stockholm: Sweden's population grew by 30,200 people to 10.5 million last year, the smallest population increase in absolute ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We follow men and women born in nineteenth-century Northern Sweden and their descendants in contemporary Sweden. We examine absolute ...

About 20% of Sweden’s brown bear population could be killed this hunting season after licenses were issued for 486 of the animals to culled, despite an outcry from conservation groups. There’s ...