THE NOBEL PRIZE
Photo: Alexander Mahmoud, © Nobel Media AB 2015
The Nobel Prize is the legacy of
Alfred Nobel
the inventor of dynamite.
Since 1901, more than
900
winners have received a Nobel Prize.
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CloseThe Nobel Prize is the legacy of
the inventor of dynamite.
Since 1901, more than
winners have received a Nobel Prize.
Swedes use
renewable energy.
The most common
are water and biomass.
About
people live in Sweden.
There are only
per square kilometre.
Swedish parents are entitled to
of paid parental leave, based on income.
Each parent has an exclusive right to
of those days.
Sweden generally invests more than
of its GDP in research and development.
Did you know that the 3-point
is a Swedish innovation?
In January the average temperature is
in the far north of Sweden.
At the same time it can be
in the south.
Sweden banned the smacking of children in
– as the first country in the world.
It has now been forbidden in
countries to date.
Sweden has
official national minorities.
They include the indigenous
as well as Jews, Roma, Sweden Finns and Tornedalians.
Summer in northernmost Sweden means
of daylight around the clock.
Winter, on the other hand, means
of pure darkness.
Sweden is covered by
forest.
Lakes and rivers make up
of the country’s total area.
Sweden boasts
national parks.
This is the strongest
you can give to valuable nature.
About
Swedes is younger than 20.
And roughly
is 65 years or older.
The average Swedish woman lives
years
and the average Swedish man
years.
Sweden is
long from north to south
and
wide from east to west.
Sweden generally
in global gender equality indexes.
Still, the pay gap is more than
in the favour of men.
Sweden has
of compulsory schooling.
Education is completely
including school lunches.
In Sweden you pay in
or ’Swedish krona’, crown.
The rough exchange rate:
or USD 1.1.
Sweden’s gross domestic product (GDP) is
or EUR 460 billion – one of the EU’s highest.
That means around
or EUR 45,000 per person.