The OP compares Sweden to its closest neighbours
> +87% of the Swedish population live in urban area
As do +83% +85% and +88% of the three closest neighbours OP compared Sweden.
In what way does that comparison not make sense?
Wrong!
It's like using Canadian population density with the whole country when almost the entire population lives within a hundred miles of the US border.
You've never been to Stockholm metro area. It's very sparsely populated compared to many big metro areas.
Stockholm is a small city (800k people or so) surrounded by villages (another 1.5 million people) spread over 6,519.3 km2. Density is 360/km2
And that's the biggest city in the country.
In comparison, Paris (as we were talking about France): 13 mln people over 18,940.7 km2 with a density of 690/km2. That's for metro area. Urban area alone is 10 mln people with density of 21,000/km2
Which is why Tegnell had the gall to blame immigrants for the spread of Covid-19. Immigrants live in more densely populated areas.
And all this still doesn't explane a significantly larger mortality rate than immediate neighbors that have similar populations.
2. Sweden's population density is 200th on this list of 250 countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...