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Swedes

Шведы · Q165192

language area per Glottologcensus counts
811
Estonia, census 2021 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
1,138
sum of censuses in 3 countries, 2001-2021
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Estonia: 811 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 3 countries; together they add up to 1,138. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

Main language: Swedish. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Estonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Swedish» · [1]
811
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Swedish» · [2]
188
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Swedish» · [3]
139
Sum across 3 countries1,138

Languages and their lineage

Swedish

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Germanicgerm1287
  4. Northwest Germanicnort3152
  5. North Germanicnort3160
  6. North Scandinaviannort3266
  7. East-Central Swediceast2780
  8. East Swediceast2781
  9. Swedishswed1254

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuanians

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Estonia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ukraine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Latvia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)