_#_Environment: water pollution; acid rain
_#_Note: strategic location along Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas
_*People #_Population: 8,564,317 (July 1991), growth rate 0.4% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 11 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 3 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 6 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 75 years male, 81 years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: 1.9 children born/woman (1991)
_#_Nationality: noun—Swede(s); adjective—Swedish