PESTLE Analysis of Sweden 2013,

Sweden is a federal state located in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, Finland, and Norway. The country covers an area of 449,964 square kilometers (173,732 square miles). The Swedish GDP growth rate was hampered by the 2008-2009 global financial crisis which affected its overall performance during 20

01-2012. Global GDP is expected to grow to $99.5 trillion by 2018, while Sweden’s economy is likely to grow $591 billion at the current price by 2018 with a slim CAGR of just 0.02% during 2013 to 2018.

Lucintel, a leading global management consulting and market research firm, has conducted a competitive analysis on this country and presents its findings in “PESTLE Analysis of Sweden 2013.” This report includes an analysis of the macroeconomic position of Sweden, as well as its political scenario, and social and technological analyses. This report provides knowledge on leading industries and the emerging industries in the country.

Lucintel discusses the various challenges faced by Sweden. After the economic slowdown, Swedish economy recovered with 6.6% GDP growth rate in 2010. Due to the euro debt crisis, the country has experienced rising unemployment. In addition, the education system of Sweden needs improvement and the young population needs to acquire various skills. The country’s increasingly aging population is gradually becoming a threat to its economy.

Lucintel's study covers the major drivers in Sweden’s economy. Sweden has robust policy frameworks and sustained reform initiatives, which have helped the country, weather the economic crisis. Sweden has a high income economy and it is the world’s tenth-richest economy in terms of per capita income. It forms the backbone of Swedish economy especially for the consumer durables industry.

This report highlights different aspects of the country including economic performance, quarterly trend, sectoral contribution, foreign direct investment by industry, trend of population, per capita income, trend of inflation, balance of payment, budget deficit, trade structure, foreign exchange reserve and exchange rates, and R&D expenditure.

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Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary    

2. Sweden’s Political Analysis    
2.1: Structure and stability of government    
2.2: Government policy agenda    
2.2.1: Policy agenda    

3. Sweden’s Economic Analysis    
3.1: Sectoral contribution to GDP and GDP growth rate    
3.2: Pricing trends - inflation and interest rates    
3.3: Consumption, saving, and investment trends    
3.4: International trade and its contribution to GDP    
3.5: Foreign direct investment by industry    

4. Sweden’s Social Analysis    
4.1: Social and demographic analysis    
4.2: Labor market    
4.3: Social development index    

5. Sweden’s R&D and Technological Factors    
5.1: R&D expenditure in Sweden    
5.2: Impact of technology in industry    
5.3: Technology policy    

6. Sweden’s Legal Analysis
6.1: Company law    
6.2: Labor law    
6.3: Tax law    
6.4: Recent economic policies    
6.5: Doing business in Sweden 2012    

7. Sweden’s Environmental Analysis    
7.1: Environment Policy    

8. SWOT Analysis of Sweden    

List of Figures

Chapter 3. Sweden’s Economic Analysis
Figure 3.1: Global economic scenario
Figure 3.2: Trend of real GDP growth rate
Figure 3.3: Forecast of real GDP growth rate
Figure 3.4: Quarterly trend index of industrial production and GDP growth rate.
Figure 3.5: Annual trend of index of industrial production and GDP growth rate
Figure 3.6: Trend of per capita income
Figure 3.7: GDP sectoral contribution
Figure 3.8: Share of different sectors to GDP
Figure 3.9: Trend of leading industries of Sweden
Figure 3.10: Annual trend of inflation and interest rate
Figure 3.11: Trend of savings and investments as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.12: Trend of consumption expenditure as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.13: Sweden’s international trade structure
Figure 3.14: Exports and imports as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.15: FDI inflows by industry

Chapter 4. Sweden’s Social Analysis
Figure 4.1: Political map of Sweden
Figure 4.2: Trend of population in Sweden
Figure 4.3: Population age structure
Figure 4.4: Trend of unemployment

Chapter 5. Sweden R&D and Technological Factor
Figure 5.1: Trend of R&D expenditure in Sweden

List of Tables

Chapter 1. Executive Summary
Table 1.1: Factors affecting business in Sweden

Chapter 2. Sweden’s Political Analysis
Table 2.1: Political factors and its impact on business

Chapter 3. Sweden’s Economic Analysis
Table 3.1: Economic factors and its impact on business

Chapter 4. Sweden’s Social Analysis
Table 4.1: Population age structure of Sweden
Table 4.2: Corruption, GINI, homicide and human development index
Table 4.3: Social factors and its impact on business

Chapter 5 Sweden’s R&D and Technological factor
Table 5.1: Technological factors and its impact on business

Chapter 6. Sweden’s Legal Analysis
Table 6.1: Tax rates in Sweden, 2012
Table 6.2: Indicators for starting business
Table 6.3: Ranking for procedures of starting business
Table 6.4: Legal factors and its impact on business

Chapter 7. Sweden’s Environment Analysis
Table 7.1: Environmental factors and its impact on business
 

Lucintel has been closely tracking and conducting research on and for the composites and other segments since 1998. This research project was designed for the purposes of determining the investment opportunities in Sweden. To determine the industries and Metro which are having sufficient opportunities.  In order to ensure fairness with our analysis, we compared several factors in order to align the current performance and, more importantly, the future prospects.

This study is a culmination of seven months of full-time effort performed by Lucintel's analyst team. Our analysts used the following sources for the creation and completion of this valuable report:
•    Political, Economic, Social, Technological and legal analysis of Sweden economy.
•    In-depth secondary research from financial statements and annual reports of the Sweden National Bank
•  Extensive search of current published literature, market and database information including industry news, company press releases, and customer intentions.

A compilation of the experiences, judgments, and insights of Lucintel's professional network, who have analyzed and tracked the economic study of the country.

Lucintel collects a significant amount of uninterpreted data from a variety of sources and converts this into intelligent data as follows. The intelligent data is used by our clients for making confident business decisions.