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Children and their Families

Official statistics of Sweden

Upcoming publishing: 2024-06-20

The statistics cover children's families, separations among parents, joint and sole custody, geographic distance between children and parents, children with Swedish/foreign background and adoption. It also contains data on children's living conditions, parents' employment and economic conditions.

Statistical news

Decreased share of children in families with single parents needing financial assistance

2024-03-22

In 2022, approximately 400,000 children aged 0-17 lived in households with a single parent, which is almost one in five children. Three-quarters of these children live with their mother and one-quarter with their father.

All statistical news for this statistic

Tables in the Statistical Database

Publications

Title Language Type Date
Residence and support of children with parents living apart Swedish Report 2023-10-18
Children with low income standard Swedish Report 2022-12-20
Living conditions for children with foreign background Swedish Report 2020-05-07
Measuring parental separations. Quality of register based statistics Swedish Report 2018-12-11
Development of Statistics Sweden’s statistics on children and their families Swedish Report 2017-03-21

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