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Methodology. 2022 list. References. List of Swedish billionaires by net worth. This is a ranking of Swedish billionaires. The following list is based on the annual estimated wealth and assets assessment compiled and published by American business magazine Forbes. The wealth of 45 people exceeds $1 billion. [ 1 ]
^a The total figure is merely an estimation; sum of all the referenced populations who claim Swedish ancestry worldwide and as such might be misleading or exaggerated. ^b Since there are no official statistics regarding ethnicity in Sweden, the number does not include ethnic Swedes who were born abroad but now repatriated to Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking Finns in Sweden; est ...
The Swedes ( Swedish: svear; Old Norse: svíar ; probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root * s (w)e, "one's own [tribesmen/kinsmen]"; [ 1][ 2] Old English: Swēon) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden and one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Geats and Gutes.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [47] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [48] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the ...
The Kingdom of Sweden is a nation-state for the Swedish people and as such the national language is held in high regard. Of Sweden's roughly 10.5 million people, [7] almost all speak Swedish, with the overwhelming majority of people in Sweden identifying Swedish as their first language (9.5 million, according to SIL's Ethnologue).
Homelessness in Sweden affects some 34,000 people. [61] [62] The Swedish government's response to homelessness has included commissioning national surveys on homelessness during the last decade that allow for direct comparison between Sweden, Denmark and Norway. [63] The three countries have very similar definitions of homelessness, with minor ...
Swedish punsch is a spirit of particular historical significance in Sweden. [11] Sweden ranks among the top 50 nations in alcohol consumption per capita with 440 AA groups in the country working on problems with alcoholism. Swedish cuisine is traditionally simple, though a notable delicacy internationally is the cinnamon roll.
The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.The colony was lost to the Dutch in 1655. [3]Between 1846 and 1930, roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population, left the country.