Intro
Sadly, my partner and I could not find much about Sweden's strengths and weakness. But, here's what we have.
Strengths:
Natural Resources
Sweden has a very large amount of natural resources such asiron ore, copper, lead, gold, zinc, silver, uranium, tungsten, feldspar, wood, arsenic, and hydropower.
Export Based Economy
An export based economy is a good economy to have because everyone needs goods, and not everyone can produce these goods. Countries like Sweden with abundant resources are perfect for export based economies. As long as there are people on the earth who are willing to buy things, export based economies will exist.
A Strategic Location
Sweden is located along the Danish Straits, which linkffffff the Baltic Sea to the North Sea. Ships must pass through these straits, meaning Sweden gets a lot of marine traffic. Also, in times of war this could be a great way to cut off supplies to far northern Europe that arrive by boat.
Weaknesses
Birth Rate Decline
In Sweden, for every 1000 people in the population there are about 10 babies born. That is pretty small compared to most of the world, and that means in times of war the soldiers would mostly be older people. This could be due to the recessions that have happened recently, and maybe now that they are coming to an end the birth rate will increase.
Older/Younger Population
Due to the recent birth rate declines and since the average Swede lives 81 years, a large amount of their population is older/younger. This is a disadvantage in both wartime and peacetime, because older/younger people can't work as many kinds of jobs as younger people, and old soldiers are not effective.
