The National Wealth of Sweden, 1810–2020

This chapter presents the evolution of national wealth in Sweden from 1810 to 2020. The historical period spans agricultural and industrial eras as well as the postwar emergence of a globalized service economy. For the historical period up to 1980, all data series come from Waldenström (2016, 2017), and for the years thereafter, data come from the official national wealth statistics compiled by Statistics Sweden. National wealth is defined as the current value of all non-financial and financial assets minus liabilities held by a country’s private and public sectors. The private sector contains corporations and households and the public sector contains central and local governments.