{"id":5143,"date":"2016-08-15T15:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/en\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:33:58","slug":"swedish-personal-identity-number-personnummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/en\/swedish-personal-identity-number-personnummer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedish Personal Identity Number &#8211; Why &#038; How You Get One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-personal-identification-number-personnummer-How-to-be-Swedish-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5214\" src=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-personal-identification-number-personnummer-How-to-be-Swedish-s-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Swedish personal identity number personnummer - How to be Swedish\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-personal-identification-number-personnummer-How-to-be-Swedish-s-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-personal-identification-number-personnummer-How-to-be-Swedish-s-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-personal-identification-number-personnummer-How-to-be-Swedish-s-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Swedish-personal-identification-number-personnummer-How-to-be-Swedish-s.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In pretty much all countries in the world, people have names. Using names are a great way to make it easier for people to understand you are talking to or about them\u00a0in conversations. Names\u00a0also make it easier to identify someone when looking for additional information in a data base.<\/p>\n<p>Swedes\u00a0don&#8217;t have a large pool of last names or first names to choose from, for example\u00a0many\u00a0are called Johan\u00a0Andersson or Anna\u00a0Johnsson. Since many Swedes have identical\u00a0names, they can easily get confused with each other. This is why Sweden introduced the <em>personnummer<\/em>-system.<\/p>\n<h2>Swedish <em>personnummer,<\/em> personal identity number<\/h2>\n<p>Every Swede gets a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Personal_identity_number_(Sweden)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal identity number<\/a>. Those numbers are\u00a0issued by <em>Skatteverket<\/em>, the Swedish Tax Agency, as part of the population register.<\/p>\n<p>A personal number can look like this: 911228-3244<\/p><div id=\"hejsw-226464326\" class=\"hejsw-content-sfa-desktop-and-tablet-1 hejsw-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3eu3RS1\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Book about Sweden - How to be Swedish\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1.png\" alt=\"Book about Sweden - How to be Swedish\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1.png 900w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Ten digits which\u00a0represent your birthday and four extra digits. In the example above:\u00a0year &#8217;91, month December (12), day 28th, and the last four digits<\/p>\n<p>The last four digits are determined partly by the place of your registration (usually where you&#8217;re born in Sweden), your gender and the last digit is the result of\u00a0some\u00a0kind of weird algorithm which is really hard to explain in short, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Personal_identity_number_(Sweden)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Use your personnummer<\/h2>\n<p>As soon as you, dear new-Swede, have received a personnummer, it&#8217;s time to learn it by heart. Actually you don&#8217;t have to put too much effort into learning your number since you will have to repeat it so many times in your life in Sweden, that it&#8217;s difficult not to remember it.<\/p>\n<p>Since even companies can request personal information from <em>Skatteverket<\/em> about you, like for example your address, you might simply be asked for your personal identity number when you order something on the internet,\u00a0sign a mobile phone contract or book an appointment at your car workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how to get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skatteverket.se\/servicelankar\/otherlanguages\/inenglish\/individualsandemployees\/movingtosweden.4.7be5268414bea064694c40c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swedish personal identity number\/card<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, dear new-Swede, if you haven&#8217;t yet, it&#8217;s time to apply for your personnummer. 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