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  • Stockholm highest life expectancy among Swedish counties for the first time

    The most recent five-year-period, 2021–2025, the life expectancy in Sweden was 85,1 years for women and 81,8 years for men. Compared to the period 2016–2020 life expectancy has increased with 0,8 years for women and 1,0 years for men. Among the counties, the life expectancy was highest in Stockholm, both for women and for men. The previous period Halland county had the highest life expectancy.

  • 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.