Supported cities
30
City profiles indexed for Sweden.
Northern Europe
Sweden Country Intelligence Hub
Sweden's profile combines stable public institutions, low-carbon electricity, and transit-oriented cities with mature climate and digital-readiness policy. Sweden is indexed at the country level in Northern Europe, with 30 city profiles linked below.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Country code
- SE
Gamla Stan
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Visual context
Additional verified imagery for Sweden. Each photo is sourced from Wikimedia Commons with full attribution and a permissive license.
Vasa Museum
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Sweden country overview
Snapshot of structured Sweden city intelligence and which verified utility layers are available on this hub.
Sweden country overview
Emergency profile
Fallback
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Healthcare profile
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Transport profile
Fallback
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Related comparisons
3
Curated city-vs-city comparison pages that reference this country.
Related collections
3
Best Cities collections that include at least one city from this country.
Data year
2025
Reference year for the country intelligence dataset.
Last updated
2026-05-16
Most recent platform-side review of the country hub.
Energy mix
Low-carbon
Hydro, nuclear, and wind generation support a favorable electricity baseline.
Service depth
High
Public health, education, and digital services reach broad coverage.
Innovation activity
Globally cited
Industrial design and software ecosystems shape opportunity.
Sweden data table
Country pages group cities into crawlable clusters and give national context without replacing city-level comparisons.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Northern Europe | Used for geographic clustering and regional comparisons. |
| Indexed cities | 30 | Luleå, Östersund, Sundsvall, Karlskrona, Halmstad, Södertälje, Gävle, Växjö, Västerås, Borås, Eskilstuna, Örebro, Norrköping, Stockholm, Malmö, Gothenburg, Uppsala, Lund, Helsingborg, Umeå, Linköping, Jönköping, Karlstad, Visby, Kalmar, Kristianstad, Nyköping, Täby, Trollhättan, Tumba |
| Energy mix | Low-carbon | Hydro, nuclear, and wind generation support a favorable electricity baseline. |
| Service depth | High | Public health, education, and digital services reach broad coverage. |
| Innovation activity | Globally cited | Industrial design and software ecosystems shape opportunity. |
Indexed cities in Sweden
Each linked city page includes its own metadata, data table, source block, module links, and any verified utility layers.
Indexed cities in Sweden
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Luleå
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Luleå profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy, and resilience alongside Umeå, Gävle, and Stockholm.
Overall64/100
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Östersund
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Östersund profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy, and resilience alongside Umeå, Gävle, and Stockholm.
Overall62/100
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Sundsvall
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Sundsvall profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy, and resilience alongside Gävle, Umeå, and Stockholm.
Overall61/100
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Karlskrona
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Karlskrona profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy, and resilience alongside Malmö, Helsingborg, and Lund.
Overall60/100
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Halmstad
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Halmstad profile to compare affordability, transport access, and port and industrial profile alongside regional peers such as Helsingborg, Gothenburg, and Malmö.
Overall71/100
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Södertälje
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Södertälje profile to compare affordability, industrial profile, and transport access alongside regional peers such as Stockholm, Eskilstuna, and Västerås.
Overall69/100
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Gävle
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Gävle profile to compare affordability, transport access, and port and industrial profile alongside regional peers such as Stockholm, Uppsala, and Västerås.
Overall70/100
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Växjö
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Växjö profile to compare affordability, energy access, and climate-adaptation context alongside regional peers such as Jönköping, Malmö, and Lund.
Overall73/100
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Västerås
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Västerås profile to compare affordability, air quality, and energy access alongside regional peers such as Örebro, Uppsala, and Stockholm.
Overall71/100
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Borås
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Borås profile to compare affordability, industrial profile, and transport access alongside regional peers such as Gothenburg, Jönköping, and Helsingborg.
Overall69/100
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Eskilstuna
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Eskilstuna profile to compare affordability, energy access, and industrial profile alongside regional peers such as Stockholm, Örebro, and Linköping.
Overall67/100
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Örebro
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Örebro profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Stockholm, Vasteras, and other central Swedish cities.
Overall75/100
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Norrköping
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Norrköping profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Linkoping, Stockholm, and other east-coast Swedish cities.
Overall74/100
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Stockholm
Sweden / Northern Europe
Read Stockholm as a high-trust, climate-forward capital where higher costs are balanced by service quality, mobility, and digital readiness.
Overall90/100
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Malmö
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Malmö profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Copenhagen and other Scandinavian metros.
Overall80/100
Image credit: Image: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Gothenburg
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Gothenburg profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level intelligence alongside Stockholm, Oslo, and other Scandinavian cities.
Overall80/100
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Uppsala
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Uppsala profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Stockholm and other Nordic peers.
Overall76/100
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Lund
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Lund profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Malmö and Copenhagen.
Overall76/100
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Helsingborg
Sweden / Skåne
Use this record as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, verifying access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources.
Overall50/100
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Umeå
Sweden / Västerbotten
Use this record as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, verifying access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources.
Overall50/100
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Linköping
Sweden / Östergötland
Use this record as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, verifying access, transport, and seasonal context with official sources.
Overall50/100
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Jönköping
Sweden / Jönköping County
Jönköping serves as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, with access, transport, and seasonal details best verified through official sources.
Overall50/100
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Karlstad
Sweden / Värmland County
Karlstad functions as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, with travellers advised to verify access, transport, and seasonal details through official sources.
Overall50/100
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Visby
Sweden / Gotland County
Visby acts as a planning anchor for local-first research and nearby weekend-rest discovery, with island access by boat and air, transport, and seasonal details best confirmed through official sources.
Overall50/100
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Kalmar
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Kalmar profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Sweden and across Northern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall78/100
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Kristianstad
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Kristianstad profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Sweden and across Northern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall78/100
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Nyköping
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Nyköping profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Sweden and across Northern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall81/100
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Täby
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Täby profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Sweden and across Northern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall82/100
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Trollhättan
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Trollhättan profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Sweden and across Northern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall76/100
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Tumba
Sweden / Northern Europe
Use the Tumba profile to compare affordability, livability, and economic indicators against other indexed cities in Sweden and across Northern Europe, and to explore nearby nature and weekend destinations.
Overall79/100
Country indicators
Source-attributed country-level indicators for Sweden, drawn from the World Bank Development Indicators. Use the cards and table together to compare scale, unit, and data year for each metric.
Country indicators for Sweden
VerifiedOfficial dataLast updated 2026-04-08 · data year 2024
How to read these country indicators
Reading guideCountry-level, not city-level
Indicators describe national context. Pair them with city profiles, comparisons, and verified utility layers (emergency, healthcare, transport) for local detail.
Source-attributed where available
Values come from the World Bank Development Indicators. Where no verified record exists, the platform shows a transparent fallback rather than a guessed number.
Different indicators, different years
Each record carries its own data year because publishers refresh indicators on their own cadence. The card and table both display the year alongside the value.
Context, not a ranking
Treat indicators as orientation, not as a leaderboard. The platform never claims any country is best, safest, cleanest, richest, healthiest, or most connected.
Read alongside city intelligence
Country indicators are most useful when combined with the city profiles in the country, the public-safety, healthcare, and transport sections, and the methodology and data-sources pages.
For full construction details, read the methodology page and the data sources registry.
Economic context
National-level economic signals to read alongside city-level cost and services pages.
GDP per capita
Verified57,117.49current US$Economic context only — not a cost-of-living score or a household-income measure.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Unemployment rate
Verified8.69percentModeled ILO labor-market context — not a guarantee of job availability for any specific worker.
Data year 2025 updated 2026-04-08
Population and urban context
National scale and urbanisation context; pair with city profiles for local detail.
Population
Verified10,569,709peopleNational scale only — not a city population value or a measure of urban density.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Urban population share
Verified88.86percentShare of population living in urban areas — not a quality-of-life or urban-form measure.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Digital access context
Connectivity context drawn from World Bank usage and subscription indicators.
Internet usage
Verified95.77percentShare of population that uses the internet — not a measure of connection speed or quality.
Data year 2025 updated 2026-04-08
Fixed broadband subscriptions
Verified40.62per 100 peopleFixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people — not a measure of overall internet quality or speed.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Health context
National health-system context; not a substitute for verified city-level healthcare layers.
Life expectancy
Verified84.06yearsNational health-context indicator — not individual health guidance.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Health expenditure per capita
Verified6,484.76current US$Per-capita spending context — not a measure of healthcare quality or access for any individual.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
Environment context
National emissions context; read separately from city-level air-quality data.
CO₂ emissions per capita
Verified3.57metric tons per capitaNational emissions context — not a city-level air-quality measurement.
Data year 2024 updated 2026-04-08
| Indicator | Value | Unit | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 10,569,709 | people | 2024 | Verified |
| Internet usage | 95.77 | percent | 2025 | Verified |
| Urban population share | 88.86 | percent | 2024 | Verified |
| GDP per capita | 57,117.49 | current US$ | 2024 | Verified |
| Life expectancy | 84.06 | years | 2024 | Verified |
| Health expenditure per capita | 6,484.76 | current US$ | 2024 | Verified |
| Unemployment rate | 8.69 | percent | 2025 | Verified |
| CO₂ emissions per capita | 3.57 | metric tons per capita | 2024 | Verified |
| Fixed broadband subscriptions | 40.62 | per 100 people | 2024 | Verified |
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — country indicators dataset
Verified- Publisher
- World Bank — World Development Indicators
- Last verified
- 2026-04-08
Methodology and context
Country indicator values appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted publishers and validated at build time. Malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Cited references: World Bank
Emergency and public safety in Sweden
Verified emergency contacts for Sweden, drawn from official emergency services and government publishers. Use these as a starting point and confirm current details with local authorities before traveling or relocating.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Sweden
Verified national healthcare information for Sweden, drawn from official government and public health publishers. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Sweden
Verified national transport context for Sweden, attributed to official transport ministries, national operators, and aviation authorities. This is informational only; routes, fares, and schedules change frequently — check the linked authorities for current details.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Related city comparisons for Sweden
Curated city-vs-city comparisons that include at least one city from Sweden. Each link opens a comparison page with structured indicators across cost, safety, healthcare, transport, and country context.
Related city comparisons for Sweden
Europe · Regional alternative
Stockholm vs Oslo: Cost, Safety, Healthcare & Transport
Compare Stockholm and Oslo across cost of living, air quality, safety, healthcare, transport, and country context for users weighing Scandinavian capitals.
Europe · Regional alternative
Malmö vs Gothenburg: Cost, Safety, Healthcare & Transport
Compare Malmö and Gothenburg as southern-Sweden regional centres across cost framing, transport access, and country-level indicators.
Europe · Regional alternative
Gothenburg vs Stockholm: Cost, Safety, Healthcare & Transport
Pair Gothenburg and Stockholm for a Swedish cross-region comparison across cost framing, transport access, and country-level public-service context.
Best Cities collections featuring Sweden
Curated city collections that include at least one Sweden city. Each collection is a comparison-oriented shortlist, not an official ranking.
Best Cities collections featuring Sweden
Family life
Best Cities for Families: Practical City Comparison
A comparison-oriented collection of cities seen through family-relevant context: safety, healthcare, public services, transport, air quality, and livability indicators. Designed for comparison, not as an official family ranking.
1 city from Sweden in this collection
Startups
Best Cities for Startups: Global City Intelligence Shortlist
Compare cities with startup and business relevance through connectivity, infrastructure, transport, and international hub positioning. A curated shortlist, not an official ranking.
1 city from Sweden in this collection
Clean air
Best Cities for Clean Air: Air Quality-Oriented City Collection
An air quality-oriented city collection. Designed for comparison through WHO and regional air-quality context — not a ranked claim of which city has the cleanest air.
1 city from Sweden in this collection
Rankings featuring Sweden cities
Explore rankings where supported Sweden city profiles appear. Use rankings as directional city intelligence, not an official government ranking.
Rankings featuring Sweden cities
Ranking
Overall City Intelligence Ranking
A balanced ranking of cities across affordability, air quality, clean-energy readiness, and resilience.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Cities for Quality of Life
Cities that combine strong services, mobility, safety, clean air, and resilience into a healthy day-to-day profile.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Cities for Remote Workers
Cities that combine fast connectivity, safety, healthy day-to-day life, and a manageable cost-of-living balance for remote and hybrid workers.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Cleanest Air Cities
A health-oriented comparison of city air-quality scores using WHO-centered pollutant interpretation.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Most Affordable Global Cities
Cities ranked by cost-of-living score, weighing housing pressure, essential spending, and household offsets across global metros.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Best Connected Cities
Cities ranked by internet speed, mobile coverage, and digital-readiness depth for residents, businesses, and remote workers.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Energy Ready City Ranking
A ranking of city energy-transition readiness, grid resilience, clean-resource potential, and adaptation capacity.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
Ranking
Affordability Balance Ranking
A practical affordability ranking that weighs housing pressure against transport access, services, and opportunity density.
30 cities from Sweden appears in this ranking
See the full rankings directory for every available structured ranking.
Interpretation and methodology note
Across 30 indexed cities, Stockholm leads at 90/100 and Visby sits at 50/100. Use the country page as a parent context layer; module-level detail lives on each city profile. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 5 institutional references.
Structured indicators on this hub are directional and intended for orientation. Verified utility layers — emergency, healthcare, transport — are attributed to official publishers where available and use transparent fallback states where verified country-level data is not yet integrated.
- Cities directory — browse every indexed city profile.
- All countries — navigate to other country hubs.
- City comparisons — curated city-vs-city pages with structured indicators.
- Best Cities collections — comparison-oriented shortlists by intent.
- All rankings — structured rankings across city intelligence categories.
- Read the scoring methodology for the scoring model used across modules.
- Browse all data sources for the source registry behind verified layers.
- Travel budget calculator — plan a trip budget for cities in Sweden. Use your own trip inputs and then review city, public safety, healthcare, and transport context. Planning estimator only, not an official travel cost estimate.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
5 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.