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Kerstin Enflo. Photo.

Kerstin Enflo

Professor

Kerstin Enflo. Photo.

Urban–rural population changes and spatial inequalities in Sweden

Author

  • Martin Henning
  • Hans Westlund
  • Kerstin Enflo

Summary, in English

This paper documents regional population changes in Sweden since 1860 and investigates how these changes link to regional economic development (regional GDP). We combine long-term decade population data for the historical counties (1860–2020) with detailed annual population observations for municipalities (1968–2021). As industrialization picked up speed, this benefited regions all around the country in terms of production, at the same time as regional population patterns started to diverge. After a slowdown in the regional GDP convergence processes during the low-growth period of the 1980s, ‘double divergence,’ in both population and regional GDP per capita, has characterized Swedish growth patterns since the 1990s.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Growth, technological change, and inequality

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

878-892

Publication/Series

Regional Science Policy and Practice

Volume

15

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Economic History

Keywords

  • population
  • regional GDP
  • regional growth
  • spatial inequalities
  • N94
  • R11

Status

Published

Project

  • Svensk regional utveckling och omvandling: dåtid, nutid och framtid

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1757-7802