Skåne & Sweden by the numbers
Skåne
- 1.4 million population
- 28 million consumers within reach in Scandinavia
- 125 million consumers within reach in northern Europe
- 451,000 SEK GRP per capita for the region
- 122,000 companies registered in the region
- 2,913 foreign-owned companies in the region (2021)
Malmö
- 357,377 residents make Malmö Sweden’s third largest city (after Stockholm and Göteborg)
- 36% of Malmö’s population (aged 25-64 years) have at least a 3-year post-secondary education.
- 26 995 mSEK in retail sales (2021)
- SEK 3,200/sqm/year was the rent level in Malmö (2022)
- 3,153 new companies were started in Malmö (2022)
Sweden
- Ranked number 2 on the 2023 EU Innovation Scoreboard
- 2nd on the 2020 WIPO Global Innovation Index
- 2nd in the world for English skills out of all non-native English speaking countries in 2019 (EF English Proficiency Index 2019)
- 87 billion SEK in new foreign direct investments for 2018
- 64% of 2017’s GDP was foreign direct investment stock
- 10th out of 190 countries by ease of doing business rank in 2019
- 1.2% GDP growth in 2019
