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Edit request: found the missing citation, 25 July 2011

I found the citation that is missing under the education section, 3rd paragraph, in the part that talks about tertiary education:

https://www.tilastokeskus.fi/artikkelit/2006/art_2006-07-06_001.html

I found this citation source in the article about Finland, which discussed a similar set of statistics about its own tertiary education system.

Thanks!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.237.212.142 (talk) 09:04, 25 July 2011‎ (UTC)[reply]

Swedish 2017 GDP has reviewed

The recent GDP per capita checked at US $51,744 per person in a month. I've changed the data based on World Bank forum centre with a great effort. KaplanAL (talk) 21:54, 27 January 2017 (Western Indonesia Time)

The Swedish famine lacks a link

A significant event in Swedish history, the Swedish famine of 1867–1869, does not have a link in this article. Under "Modern history", the image illustrating the famine in northern Sweden links to the Finnis famine in 1866-68, not to the Swedish famine of 1867–1869. The Great Famine of 1695–1697 also lacks a link further up the article, even though it is mentioned. --92.35.226.13 (talk) 13:22, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Under "Religion", add statistics for 2017: Population: 10 120 242 Members: 6 008 356 Percentage: 59,4 Source: last page of https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=1739019

Hence, change the sentence "At the end of 2016, 61.2% of Swedes belonged to the Church of Sweden..." to "At the end of 2017, 59.4% of Swedes..."

/19-01-18 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.45.253.105 (talk) 02:56, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New figures for 2018. Under "Religion", add 2018:

Population: 10 230 185

Member: 5 904 830

Percentage: 57,7

Source: last page of https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/filer/Medlemmar%20i%20svk%20i%20f%C3%B6rh%C3%A5llande%20till%20folkm%C3%A4ngd%2031.12.2018%20per%20f%C3%B6rsamling,%20kommun,%20l%C3%A4n%20och%20riket(1).PDF

/2019-03-26

Formal name

@Mechanical Keyboarder: Many countries have two versions of their name, one short and one long, e.g. Sweden and the Kingdom of Sweden. In the case of Sweden, the short name version is widely used, e.g. on the Swedish government's web site. As far as i understand, both name versions are official names. In order to distinguish the two versions from one another, the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) calls the short version the short name and the longer version the formal name. Please see: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/geonames/ That's why I changed officially to formally on March 8, 2019. Besides, the Swedish foreign office (Utrikesdepartementet) also bases its nomenclature on UN usage and has published the Foreign namebook (Utrikes namnbok). In that, they also denote the Kingdom of Sweden to be the formal name. --K1812 (talk) 12:28, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that K1812 read the same discussion on sv:Diskussion:Sverige#Officiellt namn as I. In a nutshell: there is no source that there is an official name, but Utrikes namnbok, published by the Government Offices, page 65 and 93 says that the formal name (formellt namn) in English is the Kingdom of Sweden. Because of this the Swedish article uses formellt.

As far as I can find there is no law or anything similar that says what the long form of Sweden's name is. There is nothing in the constitution and it's unlikely that there is a law that defines it. So, IMO, the long form isn't official even if it is the de facto form that's used in formal contexts. Sjö (talk) 17:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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In the part of the article where the military is discussed, the article is written in future tense, i. e. that conscription will start in 2018. Since it is now 2019, this has to be changed into past tense. Stora Kogha (talk) 10:19, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done Danski454 (talk) 17:02, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]