The Average Stockholmers

Here is the profile of the Average Stockholmer according to the Stockholm Visitors Board:

Stockholm has 763 000 inhabitants. Greater Stockholm has a population of 1, 850, 000 people. Sweden's total population is 9 million.

The average Stockholmer is 39 years old, earns SEK 20,500 (US$2816 / 2268 EURO) per month, and has 1.36 children.

The average woman in Stockholm had her first child at 30.5 years of age. Her life expectancy is 81. The average man will live to 75.

Stockholm has more single-person households than any other capital in the world. Most of the single people live on Kungsholmen, where they occupy a little over 80 percent of the apartments. In second place is Södermalm, where the corresponding figure is 60 percent.

Parents are entitled to be at home with their children for 480 days. Fathers can use half of these days for paternity leave. 47 percent of men took advantage of paternity leave.

Eighty-seven percent of Stockholmers use cell phones and 80 percent have Internet access at home.