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During the period of 2001 to 2010, a total of 7,870 Indian students came for higher studies in Sweden. [1] According to Statistics Sweden, as of 2016, there are a total 25,719 India-born immigrants living in Sweden. [2] Most of these people of Indian origin are Punjabis, Bengalis, and South Indians. Some Indians sought and obtained political ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language. Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.
Due to immigration, from 2000 to 2020, Sweden's Asian-born population grew by 577,651. [2] Many immigrants to Sweden are from Asia, with Syria and Iraq being the largest countries of Asian origin. [3] [4] Residents born in Asia living in Sweden enumerated 845,230 people in 2022, approximately 9% of Sweden's population. [5]
[48] [49] By comparison, the Swedish civil registry reports, for 2018, that nearly 1.96 million residents are foreign-born, a 47% increase from 2010. There are 8.27 million Swedish-born residents, giving a total population of 10.23 million, and a 19.1% foreign-born population. [50] The first group of Assyrians/Syriacs moved to Sweden from ...
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).
Anglo-Indian people are a distinct minority community of mixed-race British and Indian ancestry. During the colonial period, their ancestry was defined as British paternal and Indian maternal heritage; post-independence, "Anglo-Indian" has also encompassed other European and Indian ancestries. Anglo-Indians' first language is usually English.