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Sweden vs. Finland

How Sweden and Finland compare on income per person, population, life expectancy, internet use, electricity, unemployment, inflation, carbon emissions, health spending and college enrollment, each next to the world figure and linked to its chart, where you'll find its source, its date and every country's numbers.

The biggest differences

  • The population is 88% larger in Sweden (10.6M people) than in Finland (5.65M).
  • Inflation is 1.2 percentage points higher in Sweden (2.8%) than in Finland (1.6%).
  • Carbon dioxide emitted per person is 53% higher in Finland (5.5 tonnes) than in Sweden (3.6).

The two are about the same on the share of people using the internet, the share of people with electricity, and the unemployment rate.

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Figures are from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), for the newest year most countries have reported; many are estimates, and they are revised as new data comes in. GDP per person is in US dollars at each year's exchange rates, not adjusted for differences in prices, and so is health spending. Two figures are called about the same when GDP, population, emissions or health spending differ by less than 5%, life expectancy by less than a year, unemployment or inflation by less than 1 percentage point, or another share by less than 2 percentage points.

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