Sweden has a population of 10.26 million, with 88.2% living in urbanised areas. Most Swedes live in the south, but population clusters are found along the Baltic coast in the east, while the anterior areas of the north remain sparsely populated.
The capital city, Stockholm, has a population of 1.657 million. Sweden is known for having free-market capitalism and extensive welfare benefits. That being said, there are still economic challenges to provide affordable housing and successfully integrating migrants into the labour force (CIA Factbook, 2020)
Youth unemployment, between the ages of 15-24, sits at 24%, while the general unemployment rate is 6.78%. As of 2020 there were 50,414 stateless people in Sweden (CIA World Factbook, 2020). In 2020, Sweden also reported 12,991 registered asylum seekers, most coming from Syria, Uzbekistan, and Iraq (UNHCR, 2021)
Housing prices having increased homelessness significantly, and although there are more houses being built, they are not affordable (Borgen Project, 2020). The estimated number of homeless people in Sweden in 2020 was 33,000 (Stadsmissionen, 2021).
