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The Sweden count fell to 56 in 2025 after 66 licenses the year before. Sweden's annual change was 15.2% down.
Couples from Sweden reached an annual high of 323 licenses in 2011, against a low of 14 in 2020.
The drop for Sweden came in 2020: 114 licenses became 14, a 87.7% fall.
The Sweden percentage rise came in 2018, as 160 licenses became 207.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 219 |
| 2008 | 259 |
| 2009 | 211 |
| 2010 | 264 |
| 2011 | 323 |
| 2012 | 275 |
| 2013 | 263 |
| 2014 | 246 |
| 2015 | 217 |
| 2016 | 274 |
| 2017 | 160 |
| 2018 | 207 |
| 2019 | 114 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2021 | fewer than 10 |
| 2022 | withheld |
| 2023 | 65 |
| 2024 | 66 |
| 2025 | 56 |
For couples from Sweden, both-first marriages accounted for 162 licenses; another 75 involved a remarriage. At 68.3%, Sweden's both-first share was above the countywide 50.2% by 18.17 percentage points.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 162 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 75 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Sweden licenses was 30-34, containing 95 partners. Sweden's next largest band was 35-39 with 87 people. The 30-34 band represented 20.0% of partners from Sweden, above the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Partners under 35 accounted for 27.2% of all people on Sweden licenses, lower than the 42.7% across all origins. Beyond those first two bands, Sweden had 74 partners aged 50-54 and 66 aged 40-44, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 25-29 | 34 |
| 30-34 | 95 |
| 35-39 | 87 |
| 40-44 | 66 |
| 45-49 | 55 |
| 50-54 | 74 |
| 55-59 | 34 |
| 60-64 | 21 |
| 65-69 | fewer than 10 |
| 70-74 | fewer than 10 |
July drew the largest published month total from Sweden: 32 licenses, or 13.5% of the recent total. April had the smallest published month count, 15, leaving a gap of 17 licenses between the busiest and quietest months. October followed with 26 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | fewer than 10 |
| February | fewer than 10 |
| March | 18 |
| April | 15 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 25 |
| July | 32 |
| August | 24 |
| September | 23 |
| October | 26 |
| November | 20 |
| December | 19 |
Across all couples, July accounted for 8.01% of recent licenses, compared with 13.50% for Sweden, a gap of 5.49 percentage points above the overall share. The next month after October for couples from Sweden was June, with 25 licenses, placing it third in the published monthly ranking. Together, July, October and June supplied 83 recent Sweden licenses, or 35.0% of the 237 total; those same months accounted for 26.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Sweden's recent count of 237 was more than the 156 from Argentina, its adjacent published overseas origin by volume. In 2025, Sweden was 23rd among recognized overseas origins, while its pooled recent total ranked 25th among published overseas pages. The recorded Sweden total across those recent files averages 47.4 licenses per file year, with 2022 covered only through 22 December within the pooled 2021 to 2025 window.
The earlier Sweden checkpoints were 219 in 2007, 114 in 2019, 14 in 2020, 65 in 2023. By 2025, Sweden's count stood 50.9% below its 2019 level. Across 2021 to 2025, Sweden contributed 237 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.06%. In 2025 alone, Sweden represented 0.08% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, Sweden supplied 219 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.20% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from Sweden, budget $102 for the license and bring the identification listed in the marriage license guide; both partners attend to collect it. To obtain a certificate to take home to Sweden, allow for the officiant's filing stage, with a deadline of 10 days after the ceremony, then follow the certified-copy guide for the $20 certified certificate once the marriage is recorded.