That the Parliament welcomes the news that Sweden’s population has passed 10 million for the first time; understands that immigration accounted for 75% of the growth from nine to 10 million over the previous 13 years; understands that there were more women in Sweden when the country reached nine million people in 2004 but that this has now changed with more men than women; notes that 82% of the population were born in Sweden; further notes that Sweden has kept detailed population records since 1749; acknowledges what it considers the success that smaller independent countries have achieved economically, culturally and socially, with small nations dominating the top ten of the GDP per capita tables, and considers that Scotland has been held back in many ways, including in population terms, since the Union in 1707.