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. 2024 Nov 26;40(1):34. doi: 10.1007/s10680-024-09723-5

Table 4.

Descriptive statistics by immigrant generation

Majority G2 G1 Total
N 2,420,220 343,685 470,840 3,234,745
(%) 77.0 10.2 12.8 100.0
Gender
Men 49.8 49.9 48.9 49.6
Women 50.3 50.1 51.1 50.4
Educational attainment
Upper secondary 61.3 62.9 52.4 60.2
Tertiary 38.7 37.1 47.6 39.8
Region
Rural 18.7 12.1 6.5 16.2
Suburban 9.5 7.2 5.1 8.6
Urban 71.9 80.7 88.5 75.2
Age 43.1 40.9 42.4 42.7
(Std. dev.) 12.2 12.2 11.1 12.0

Majority = the Majority Swedish population, G2 = the second-generation, G1 = the first-generation immigrants