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Sweden has a suicide rate which was below the OECD average. [1] During the 1960s, Sweden had one of the highest reported suicide rates among the most developed countries, but it declined as methods for measuring were standardized internationally. [2] In 2011, 1378 suicide deaths occurred, which equates to a rate of 17.5 per 100,000 people.
Life expectancy in 2021 was 84.8 years for women and 81.2 years for men and it increased 2.3 years on average from 2006 to 2019. [2] However, the health situation varies between groups in Swedish society and equitable health has proven to be a challenge, with level of education, employment status and country of birth being factors that strongly ...
Anti-Islam activists in Denmark and Sweden have burnt and damaged several copies of the Koran in recent months, prompting outrage in the Muslim world and demands the Nordic governments ban such acts.
Sweden has the most segregated labor market of people with foreign background in Europe, when measured against both high and low educational level by OECD statistics. [2] According to the European Network Against Racism , skin color and ethnic/religious background have significant impact on an individual's opportunities in the labor market.
Finland was extremely pressurized from the Soviet Union, and in Sweden the general opinion was that it would be an unkind act toward Finland if Sweden also became a NATO member, going the same way ...
Most of us want to live a long, healthy life, but people in certain areas of the world actually live much longer on average than others. Research shows that people in Japan live the longest on ...
Many outside Sweden considered the measures taken by the authorities against the pandemic to be significantly different when compared to other countries. As a result, there was a big increase in international news coverage of Sweden.
Sweden also introduced some privatization into the system, which empowers beneficiaries to determine how to invest their retirement funds and take an active role in planning for their own future.