Though not nearly as rich as Sweden in terms of income per head, it has many more people, so its economy is bigger.

虽然人均收入不如瑞典高，但是它的人口基数大，所以经济体较大。

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The result is that last year Sweden's economy grew at a slower rate than those of its neighbours.

ECONOMIST: Sweden

The Economist has an interesting recent article that claims that the most successful Western economy during the past decade is Sweden, which did exactly the opposite of everyone else: stimulate private ownership and reduce government spending, taxes and debt.

FORBES: Are we really in a recovery?

Now to give more of a clue to how and when our economy will recover, McKinsey has looked at the experience of two Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Finland, which experienced credit and housing booms (rather like us) in the 1980s that turned into an economic and financial bust in 1990 (sound familiar).

BBC: US ahead of UK on road to reducing debts