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🇸🇪 Sweden
Kingdom of Sweden
SWE SE kr Swedish krona (SEK)
Every statistic we track for Sweden — 138 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$77,094
81.8 yrs
7.25
0.85
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.4 | #171/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 40.4 | #60/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 9.6 | #90/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 10.8 | #86/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 26.3 | #193/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 128 | #145/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 88.9% | #34/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #110/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 95.5% | #26/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 140.8 | #35/209 | 2022 |
| Weekly Internet Use | 98.7% | #2/34 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 17% | #131/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 8.7 | #52/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 0.2 | #198/199 | 2024 |
| Daily Cigarette Smokers | 6.4% | #31/31 | 2019 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 10.5% | #22/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 30.2% | #164/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 2 | #182/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 81.8 | #12/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 82 | #11/186 | 2020 |
| Obesity (BMI ≥ 30) | 14.7% | #23/30 | 2019 |
| Suicide Rate | 11.7 | #50/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 21.8% | #74/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 2.5% | #159/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 85 | #20/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 11.9 | #30/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 482 | #22/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 487 | #18/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 494 | #21/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 3.6 | #84/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 4,289 | #20/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 69.4% | #44/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 30% | #43/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 32% | #2/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 87.6 | #5/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 47% | #33/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 52% | #6/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in the News Media (ISSP) | 54.2% | #5/28 | 2020 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 0.9 | #172/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 2.1 | #189/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 89.2% | #51/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 77.2% | #2/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.1 | #99/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 21.5% | #91/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 6.5% | #70/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 1.9 | #180/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 71.3 | #4/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.4 | #109/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 44.3% | #128/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 7.3 | #5/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness (EVS) | 93.9% | #4/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1.1 | #18/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 2 | #15/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #28/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 1 | #7/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.4 | #5/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.6 | #16/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 1 | #6/193 | 2023 |
| Life Satisfaction (Eurobarometer) | 95.3% | #3/34 | 2024 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Acceptance of Homosexuality (EVS) | 84.5% | #4/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Attended a Demonstration | 14.5% | #45/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 84.3% | #65/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 69.9% | #104/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 71 | #12/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (EVS) | 63.8% | #4/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Interpersonal Trust (ISSP) | 52.1% | #5/27 | 2020 |
| Long-term Orientation | 33 | #15/26 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 5 | #65/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 31 | #60/65 | 2010 |
| Signed a Petition | 53.6% | #7/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 58.2% | #3/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 5.1 | #36/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.6 | #27/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in People (ESS) | 6.1 | #5/38 | 2023 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.4 | #31/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 95.4% | #4/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 91.9% | #4/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.9 | #34/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 29 | #62/65 | 2010 |
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