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Sweden

o The Government through documents of notifications.With a PCI of $24, 830, Sweden nowadays has less than three % of Sweden’s labor force works in agriculture and even less than 10 % of the country’s area consists of farmland, yet agriculture is still an important factor of the Swedish economy. The largest amount of agricultural land and the highest productivity are found in the southern parts of Sweden, where specialization in grain and pork production is predominant. With all the natural resources of Sweden agricultural products ranks number one. Of Sweden’s forest land, the national government owns only 5 % (which are mostly located in the northern section of Sweden), forest companies own 37 % (mainly in north central Sweden) and individual owners, mainly farmers, own about 50 %. Fishing used to be a big income for many people, but with new fishing zones redrawn Sweden has lost some of it’s traditional fishing places in the North Sea and are now emphasizing fishing in the Baltic Sea. Mining has still played a large role in Sweden’s economy but has diminished in relative importance since the past. The iron ore fields of Kiruna are at the center of a railroad line from the Baltic steel mill center of Lule and the ice-free Atlantic export harbor of Narvik, Norway. The timber and wood product industry is located close to its sources of raw material. Sweden’s metal industry still follows a pattern from the days when waterpower and timberland determined the location of iron mills. The iron and steel industry still concentrated in Bergslagen or coastal Oxelsund and Lule. Even though Sweden has many advantages to its natural resources industry; the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are still undergoing many strong expansions. Which will then also become another major advantage to the economy of an already stable and strong country.For a long time Danes had been fighting with the Swedes...

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