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Between 1821 and 1920, the U.S. witnessed a significant wave of Scandinavian immigration. Within this period, Sweden was the dominant contributor. While its population stood at 5,847,637 in 1920, Sweden accounted for a staggering 1,144,607 immigrants, making up 53.5% of the total Scandinavian immigrants to the US during this era.
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. [4] [5]
Finnish was apparently forgotten by 1750 or so; Swedish held on until the late 18th century. [4] While generally the Swedes thought of themselves not as colonizers, having been spared the bloody conflicts with indigenous Americans had with other colonists and of having had good relations with them, new research has complicated that idea. [5]
Sweden also introduced some privatization into the system, which empowers beneficiaries to determine how to invest their retirement funds and take an active role in planning for their own future.
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On 3 August 2022, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Finland and Sweden's accession bids to join NATO. [3] U.S. President Joe Biden approved the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden in August 2022. [4] Sweden's accession into NATO was finalized on 7 March 2024. [5] The United States has observer status with the regional BEAC and CBSS.
Swedish culture is an offshoot of the Norse culture which dominated southern Scandinavia in prehistory.Sweden was the last of the Scandinavian countries to be Christianised, with pagan resistance apparently strongest in Svealand, where Uppsala was an old and important ritual site as evidenced by the tales of Uppsala temple.
The economic history of Sweden, since the Iron Age, has been characterized by extensive foreign trade based on a small number of export and import commodities, often derived from the widely available raw materials iron ore and wood. An industrial expansion in the latter half of the 19th century transformed the society on many levels.