According to demographic projections, people leaving Sweden are set to outnumber immigrants this year. The government says this is thanks to its restrictive migration policies.
The number of immigrants in Sweden is lower than it has been for a long time.
In early August, Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said Statistics Sweden, the government's official statistics agency, had found that 5,700 more people had emigrated than immigrated in the period from January to May 2024. Stenergard said the trend was expected to continue, adding that the number of asylum applications had not been as low since 1997.
