Sweden

53 000 SWEDES LEFT TO LIVE ABROAD IN 2015…….

”New Swedes” moving in, and old Swedes move out.

Elsewhere outside of the West, it’s called colonialism, inside the West it’s ”multiculturalism”.

More Swedes than ever are moving abroad

More Swedes than ever are moving abroad

Swedes at Arlanda airport. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT

Published: 07 Jan 2016 17:12 GMT+01:00

Record numbers of Swedes are quitting their homeland, according to figures from the country’s number crunching agency Statistics Sweden.

More Swedish residents chose to leave the Nordic nation to live in other countries in 2015 than at any other time in the last 160 years, freshly released figures suggest.

Between 1850 and 1930, there was mass emigration from Sweden amid high unemployment and crop failures, with around 50,000 people a year quitting the Scandinavian country.

According to Statistics Sweden, some 51,237 people left Sweden last year, including foreign-born residents heading back to their home countries or other destinations.

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