{"id":3464,"date":"2011-04-19T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2011-04-19T21:47:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:47:36","slug":"fun-facts-about-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/fun-facts-about-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun facts about Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Google.se and type in &#8220;Weird facts about&#8230;&#8221;, weird facts about Sweden comes up as the third suggestion, after weird facts about animals and weird facts about humans. Inspired by this discovery, I decided to gather a few fun\u00a0facts about our beloved Sweden. Weird or not, here goes:<\/p>\n<p>* Sweden has the longest life expectancy in Europe, 80.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>* Swedish women has their first child in average at 30 years old , the oldest in Europe along with the Netherlands and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>* Sweden has the highest percentage of working mothers in the developed world, 76% of all the mothers go back to\u00a0work.<\/p>\n<p>* 40% of the Swedish women and 32% of the Swedish men aged between 25-64 participate in education or training. The EU average is 10% for women and 9% for men.<\/p>\n<p>* As of 2006, Sweden had received 27 Noble prizes, including 5 peace prizes. This is the highest per capita ratio.<\/p>\n<p>* Sweden has the highest ratio of McDonald&#8217;s restaurants per capita in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>* Sweden has the highest number of nuclear plants per capita in Europe, with 10 reactors for 9 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>* Sweden has &#8211; along with Denmark and Hungary &#8211; the highest VAT in the world: 25%.<\/p>\n<p>* Swedish Inventions include:<br \/>\n\u2013 The perfected the design of the zipper (Gideon Sundb\u00e4ck).<br \/>\n\u2013 The marine propeller (John Ericsson).<br \/>\n\u2013 The refrigerator (Carl Munters and Baltzar von Platen).<br \/>\n\u2013 The computer mouse (H\u00e5kan Lans).<br \/>\n\u2013 The pace-maker (Rune Elmqvist).<\/p>\n<p>* A popular Swedish souvenir is the road sign for moose-crossing. Every year a huge number of these signs are stolen from Swedish roads.<\/p>\n<p>* The Stockholm Globe Arena is the largest hemispherical building in the world with a diameter of 110 meters, an inner height of 85 meters and a total volume of 600 000 cubic meters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/04\/images.jpg\" aria-label=\"Images\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3466\"  alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/04\/images.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/04\/Flan_ren_09_jakt_526338l.jpg\" aria-label=\"Flan Ren 09 Jakt 526338l\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3467\"  alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/04\/Flan_ren_09_jakt_526338l.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"200\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/04\/Flan_ren_09_jakt_526338l.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>If you use Google.se and type in &#8220;Weird facts about&#8230;&#8221;, weird facts about Sweden comes up as the third suggestion, after weird facts about animals and weird facts about humans. Inspired by this discovery, I decided to gather a few fun\u00a0facts about our beloved Sweden. Weird or not, here goes: * Sweden has the longest&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/fun-facts-about-sweden\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34549,34551,34550,34552,10452],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-fun-facts-about-sweden","tag-globen","tag-moose-sign","tag-stockholm-globe-arena","tag-swedish-inventions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}