Urban–rural population changes and spatial inequalities in Sweden
Henning, Martin ; Westlund, Hans and Enflo, Kerstin LU
(2023)
In Regional Science Policy and Practice
15(4).
p.878-892
- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Henning, Martin
; Westlund, Hans
and Enflo, Kerstin
LU
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- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- population, regional GDP, regional growth, spatial inequalities, N94, R11
- in
- Regional Science Policy and Practice
- volume
- 15
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 878 - 892
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85143443464
- ISSN
- 1757-7802
- DOI
- 10.1111/rsp3.12602
- project
- Svensk regional utveckling och omvandling: dåtid, nutid och framtid
- language
- English
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