About SwedPop

SwedPop is a national research infrastructure with harmonized individual-level, life-course, cross-sectional and panel data, covering large parts of the Swedish 19th and 20th century population over long time periods. The infrastructure offers access to census data with national coverage as well as linked individual level data with a large number of demographic and socio-economic variables covering different social and geographical settings, including the largest cities Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Data is collected from six of the most important historical population databases in Sweden: POPUM-POPLINK at the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, the Scanian Economic-Demographic Database(SEDD) at the Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University, SweCens at the Swedish National Archives, the Roteman database at Stockholm City Archives, the Gothenburg Population Panel (GOPP) developed at the Department for Economy and Society, Gothenburg University. Through a collaboration with the Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies data from databases Swedish Death Index (SDI) and Emiweb (from 2026) are also accessible in SwedPop. 

SwedPop is funded by the Swedish Research Council and a consortium including the Universities in Umeå, Lund and Gothenburg, the Swedish National Archives and the Stockholm City Archives.  

Administrating organisation

Umeå University (CEDAR, Centre for Demographic and Ageing research)

Director

Elisabeth Engberg  elisabeth.engberg [at] umu.se

Nodes

CEDAR/Demographic Data Base, Umeå University

Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University

Unit for Economic History, Gothenburg University

National Archives, Stockholm

Stockholm City Archive, Stockholm

Nodes managers

  • Mattias Sandström                mattias.sandstrom[at]umu.se
  • Martin Dribe                           martin.dribe[at]ekh.lu.se
  • Christer Lundh                       christer.lundh[at]econhist.gu.se
  • Mats Berggren                       mats.berggren[at]riksarkivet.se
  • Johan Gidlöf                           johan.gidlof[at]stockholm.se

Steering group

  • Professor Susanna Fellman, Gothenburg University, CHAIR
  • Professor Therese Nilsson, Lund University
  • Professor Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Umeå University
  • Professor Martin Hällsten, Stockholm University
  • Professor Lotta Vikström, Umeå University

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