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  • 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.

  • More common for women to move when relations begin and end

    A new report from Statistics Sweden focuses on internal migration in relation to demographic events, such as forming and separating from a relationship. The report shows that women are more likely to be the one moving at the start or the end of a relationship.

  • Temporary changes in cross-municipality migration during the pandemic

    During the pandemic years 2020—2021, an unusually large number of people moved out of large cities while an unusually large number of people moved to small towns and commuting municipalities near medium-sized towns. Subsequently, the moving patterns have nearly returned to pre-pandemic norms.

  • Lowest life expectancy in countries with lowest GDP per capita

    A new report by Statistics Sweden describes the association between life expectancy and GDP per capita in European countries in the period 1995—1996 and 2021—2022. In general, life expectancy is lowest among countries with the lowest GDP per capita.