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Population by level of education, type of migrant and sex

Age 20–64, december 31 2019

Level of EducationSexTotalType of migrant
   No migrationsLast migration before 2010Number of migrations year 2010-2019
     123+
Total
Total
5 858 492 4 169 157 924 082 705 954 51 945 7 354
 
Women
2 864 294 2 032 387 476 435 327 746 24 397 3 329
 
Men
2 994 198 2 136 770 447 647 378 208 27 548 4 025
Primary and lower secondary education less than 9 years
Total
155 200 10 565 65 828 77 325 1 197 285
 
Women
80 269 3 608 38 002 37 951 566 142
 
Men
74 931 6 957 27 826 39 374 631 143
Primary and lower secondary education, 9 years
Total
499 229 351 642 84 340 58 877 3 802 568
 
Women
190 831 128 721 35 987 24 588 1 318 217
 
Men
308 398 222 921 48 353 34 289 2 484 351
Upper secondary education, 2 years or less
Total
1 064 505 780 672 178 167 100 122 4 803 741
 
Women
458 121 329 497 84 497 42 142 1 741 244
 
Men
606 384 451 175 93 670 57 980 3 062 497
Upper secondary education, 3 years
Total
1 522 831 1 252 030 189 231 68 940 11 507 1 123
 
Women
697 605 565 366 93 632 32 476 5 612 519
 
Men
825 226 686 664 95 599 36 464 5 895 604
Post-secondary education, 2 years or less
Total
931 667 682 183 138 023 101 768 8 594 1 099
 
Women
473 168 347 752 69 991 50 512 4 353 560
 
Men
458 499 334 431 68 032 51 256 4 241 539
Post-secondary education, 3 years or longer
Total
1 451 972 1 031 929 233 857 164 855 18 754 2 577
 
Women
869 579 631 699 139 298 87 757 9 522 1 303
 
Men
582 393 400 230 94 559 77 098 9 232 1 274
Postgraduate education
Total
70 576 37 747 18 093 12 834 1 628 274
 
Women
30 762 16 744 7 949 5 362 611 96
 
Men
39 814 21 003 10 144 7 472 1 017 178
Data not available
Total
162 512 22 389 16 543 121 233 1 660 687
 
Women
63 959 9 000 7 079 46 958 674 248
 
Men
98 553 13 389 9 464 74 275 986 439

Comments

Migration means both immigration and emigration. For a migration to be included in the statistics, the person have to live for at least one year abroad after an emigration and one year in Sweden after an immigration.

In the downloadable Excel-file is the statistics also presented for Swedish- and foreign-born.

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Last updated
2021-06-07

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