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  • 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.

  • Faster increase in life expectancy among foreign born after 2020

    The years around the COVID-19 pandemic saw some unusually large fluctuations in life expectancy, especially among the foreign born and individuals with lower education. Since then, life expectancy has returned to the same trend as before the pandemic for the Swedish born and increased faster than before the pandemic among the foreign born in all educational groups.