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Did a Swedish census reveal a tenfold population overestimate?

The proposed tenfold overestimate exaggerates Sweden's earlier census difficulties.

Question

Did an earlier Swedish census find only 100,000 men when a million had been expected?

Short answer

The disparity was not as large as that, although Sweden had experienced census difficulties.

Notes

The earlier census did not reveal the suggested tenfold disparity between expected and recorded numbers of men. Sweden had experienced census difficulties, but the corrected figure remains unspecified.