Validate Swedish Personal Identity Numbers
A Swedish personal identity number can be written in a lot of different ways. It normally takes one of the standard forms (YYMMDD-BBBC, YYMMDD+BBBC or YYYYMMDDBBBC) but can also include variations with whitespaces etc. Use the form below to parse a value and find out data that be extracted form the number such as date of birth and gender.
190001289818 is recognized as a valid Swedish Personal Identity Number!
Note: It is found in the list of testdata that is forbidden to use in production!
Note: It is found in the list of testdata that is forbidden to use in production!
000128+9818
10 Digit String | 000128+9818 | This is the most common format, often refered to as YYMMDD-XXXX. The year is represented as 2 digits and the delimiter provides the info required to get the full year. | |
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12 Digit String | 190001289818 | The format that is the receomended one to use when persisting it as it contains the full year as digits and no delmiter that changes over time.. | |
Year | 1900 | The year the person was born. | |
Month | 01 | The month the person was born. | |
Day | 28 |
The day the person was born. Note: Because of a limited amount of birth numbers per day (1000) a person might not receive the exact day as the day part. It can be a few days later or earlier, but always within the same month. |
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Delimiter | + | By default a hyphen (-) but turns into a plus (+) the year the person turns 100. | |
Birth Number | 981 | A number to uniqely identity a person born on the day. 1000 in total, 500 female (even numbers) and 500 male (odd numbers). | |
Checksum | 8 | Calculated using the Luhn algorithm on the 10 digit string (without delimiter). | |
Gender | Male | Extracted from Birth Number. | |
Date of Birth | 1900-01-28 | Extracted from Year, Month and Day. See potential limitation on Day. | |
Age | 124 | Extracted from Date of Birth. See potential limitation on Day. |