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  • Adult adoptions more common than child adoptions

    Since the year 2000, the number of international adoptions has declined sharply, while domestic adoptions have increased. Today, adult adoption is the most common form of adoption in Sweden.

  • Four generations and their life events

    A new report from Statistics Sweden follows people born in Sweden in 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2005 from birth to the year 2023, when they were 48, 38, 28, and 18 years old, respectively. The report compares, among other things, their infant mortality rates, how common it is to have grandparents alive, and the type of municipality they lived in at different ages.

  • Increase in emigration during the 2000s

    Emigration from Sweden has increased the last decades due to a larger foreign-born population. A larger share of the emigrants from Sweden are previous labor immigrants and persons with a refugee background.

  • Increasing differences in life expectancy by educational level

    Between 2014 and 2024, life expectancy increased for individuals across all education levels. However, in 2020, following the outbreak of covid-19, life expectancy fell substantially, especially among individuals with lower education. For those born in Sweden with primary education, the increase was weak over the whole period, and life expectancy was still lower in 2024 than in 2019.