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Sweden

Sweden's best placing is 7th of 134 for railways per person.

Best placing: #7Railways per person
Top 10 placings: 1 / 17
Population: 10.6 million
Land area: 407,270 km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Sweden is.

Railways per person

#7 of 134

1,029.57 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2020

GDP per person

#12 of 182

63,133 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Forest per person

#17 of 194

0.0264 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Forest by area

#17 of 194

68.7 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Forest

#21 of 194

279,800 km² of forest

2nd in Europe · World Bank · 2023

GDP

#25 of 182

668,998,664,082 US$ (current prices)

12th in Europe · World Bank · 2025

Airports

#29 of 193

206 airports

9th in Europe · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways

#22 of 135

10,910 km of railway

9th in Europe · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2020

Land area per person

#35 of 194

0.038 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports per person

#39 of 192

19.44 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Coastline

#35 of 151

3,218 km of coastline

12th in Europe · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Land area

#58 of 194

407,270 km² of land

5th in Europe · World Bank · 2023

Railways by area

#40 of 133

26.79 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2020

Airports by area

#90 of 191

5.06 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population

#92 of 195

10,596,620 people

14th in Europe · World Bank · 2025

Rainfall

#127 of 179

624 mm of precipitation per year

27th in Europe · World Bank · 2022

Population by area

#160 of 194

26.02 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

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