Sweden, demographics: Sweden has a ‘fast-growing immigrant population. Thirty years ago Sweden was a largely homogenous country, but today 10% of its people (and one-seventh of those of working age) are foreign-born. Sweden’s new immigrants – especially the country’s fast-increasing Muslim population – have integrated poorly compared with the arrivals of the 1970s and 1980s,’ (‘The Swedish model: Admire the best, forget the rest’, The Economist Sept 9th 2006, p.26).