Sweden's hdi rose from 0.9 in 1994 to 1.0 in 2023.
Sweden · Quality of life
Human development, happiness, safety, access and environment.
14 indicators · 14 with data
Sweden's life satisfaction fell from 7.4 in 2011 to 7.3 in 2025.
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- Life expectancyup +0.8 yrs9th of 217
- Healthy life expectancy at birthup +0.4 yrs8th of 185
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- Gini indexdown −7.3 %13th of 57
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- Air pollution (PM2.5)down −7.5 %16th of 200
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- Homicide rateup +3.7 %32nd of 83
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.0 pts18th of 148
- Access to electricity (% of population)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 215
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- Internet usersup +0.2 pts4th of 10
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- Expected years of schoolingunchanged +0.0 yrs9th of 195
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- Unemploymentup +0.3 pts142nd of 185
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- Housing cost overburden rateup +0.2 pts26th of 30
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- Women in parliamentdown −1.7 pts15th of 184