↑Ethnologue report for Swedish. 2009-02-09 тикшерелгән. gives the number of 8,789,835, but is based on data from 1986. Sweden has currently a population of 9.5 million (2012 census), and there are about 290,000 native speakers of Swedish in Finland Statistics Finland – Population Structure. 2009-02-09 тикшерелгән., based on data from 2007), leading to an estimate of about 9 to 10 million.