Population registration certificates
Population registration certificates show details from the population register. You can request different types of certificates, depending on what you need them for. You can print certain population registration certificates yourself, but you have to request for others to be sent to you by post.
A population registration certificate is an extract from the Swedish Population Register. It shows the details recorded about you in the Swedish Population Register. Only the Swedish Tax Agency issues population registration certificates.
A population registration certificate cannot be used as proof of identity.
Choose the correct population registration certificate
There are different population registration certificates for different purposes. Which one you need depends on what you intend to use it for, and who the recipient is.
Find and request population registration certificates External link.
Here’s how to obtain a population registration certificate
Download and print it yourself
If you have Swedish eID and are over 16 years old, you can log in to the Swedish Tax Agency’s e-service to download and print a certificate – as long as it contains your personal data only.
Population registration certificates containing data about other people, such as children or other relatives, must be ordered by post.
Population registration certificates that you can download yourself
You can download the following certificates if you log in to our website, skatteverket.se:
- Address
- Employment
- Funding/scholarship application
- Certificate of residence
- ID card
- Invitation
- Passport
- Studies
- Extract from the Swedish Population Register – English text
- Extract from the Swedish Population Register – Swedish text
- Professional certification
Request a population registration certificate to be posted to your registered address
If you request a population registration certificate to be sent by post, we will send it to the address at which the person in question is listed in the Swedish Population Register.
You can find out your registered address, special postal address or foreign postal address by logging in to “My pages” (“Mina sidor”) on the Swedish Tax Agency’s website.
If you want a population registration certificate to be sent to a different address
Request a population registration certificate to be sent to a different address
You must contact us if you want a population registration certificate to be sent to an address other than your registered address. The easiest way to do so is by using our online contact form on the page “Accessing public documents and information”.
Accessing public records and information (in Swedish)
For more ways to get in touch with the Swedish Tax Agency, please visit our “Contact us” page.
Request a population registration certificate to be sent to your digital mailbox
Please contact us if you wish to have a population registration certificate sent to your digital mailbox. The certificate must contain your personal data only.
Print out a population registration certificate at a state service centre
If you need access to a computer or printer to use our e-services, you can use a customer computer at a state service centre.
Special population registration certificates and other certificates
Request a family certificate
A family certificate is a type of population registration certificate. You can request it on the page “Find and request population registration certificates”.
Request a death certificate
Population registration certificates and death certificates are different types of extracts. A death certificate is the same as a death certificate and relatives report.
If you need proof of birth for a country other than Sweden
International birth certificates are not issued in Sweden, unlike in some other countries. The document that corresponds to a birth certificate is the population registration certificate “Extract from the Swedish Population Register – 120 including all relationships”. This population registration certificate is available in Swedish or English.
You can request it using the e-service “Find the right population registration certificate” (“Hitta rätt personbevis”). Select the following options:
- Foreign embassy/government agency
- Information about me, who I am married to, my children and my parents (“Extract from the Swedish Population Register – 120 including all relationships”). Can be used as proof of birth or marriage.
- The language you want the certificate to be in.
Find the right population registration certificate
For more ways to get in touch with the Swedish Tax Agency, please visit our “Contact us” page.
If you need proof of marriage for a country other than Sweden
International marriage certificates are not issued in Sweden, unlike in some other countries. The document that corresponds to a marriage certificate is the population registration certificate “Extract from the Swedish Population Register – 120 including all relationships”. You can request this population registration certificate in Swedish or English.
You can request it using the e-service “Find the right population registration certificate” (“Hitta rätt personbevis”). Select the following options:
- Foreign embassy/government agency
- Information about me, who I am married to, my children and my parents (“Extract from the Swedish Population Register – 120 including all relationships”). Can be used as proof of birth or marriage.
- The language you want the certificate to be in.
Find the right population registration certificate External link.
For more ways to get in touch with the Swedish Tax Agency, please visit our “Contact us” page.
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