Previous                 Philately Goes Bananas                 Next Sweden Sweden does not produce bananas and, according to Judi Lembke in Culture Trip, as of 2017 Sweden was winning in an on-going rivalry with Denmark for the title of the largest per-capita consumer of bananas in the world. According to Snopes.com Rosalía Guerrero Cantarell wrote in the journal History of Retailing and Consumption that the first bananas arrived in Sweden in 1906. Four companies gained control of the limited market that existed until World War II shut off supplies. The arrival of a shipment of 20 000 tonnes of bananas in 1944 launched the upward trend that has brought banana consumption to its current high levels. Date of Issue: November 21, 1985 Design: Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) Series: Nobel Laureates in Literature Date of Issue: September 30, 2006 Series: Characters from Swedish Children's Television Shows Date of Issue: May 10, 2007 Series: Botanical Illustrations by Georg Dionys Ehret Date of Issue: March 26, 2009 Series: Clay Figurines of Bananas Previous                                                Next Return to the Banana Stamps from Around the World Index Page.