Sweden's life expectancy rose from 78.7 yrs in 1995 to 84.1 yrs in 2024.
Sweden · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Sweden's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 69.3 yrs in 2000 to 71.1 yrs in 2021.
Sweden's infant mortality fell from 4.0 ‰ in 1995 to 2.0 ‰ in 2024.
Sweden's under-5 mortality rate fell from 4.8 ‰ in 1995 to 2.4 ‰ in 2024.
Sweden's maternal mortality ratio fell from 7.0 /100k in 1994 to 4.0 /100k in 2023.
Sweden's ncd mortality fell from 13.2 % in 2000 to 7.9 % in 2021.
Sweden's suicide mortality rate fell from 14.9 /100k in 2000 to 13.8 /100k in 2021.
Sweden's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 6.7 /100k in 2000 to 3.1 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts5th of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +4.5 %8th of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.4 pts8th of 22
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- Physiciansup +2.0 %17th of 127*
- Nurses and midwivesup +2.1 %12th of 120*
- Hospital bedsdown −5.0 %80th of 113*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts74th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +2.0 pts48th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 152
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −13.2 %22nd of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.0 pts18th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.0 pts23rd of 141