Swedish Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Health System Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Costs for Consumers
Health System Expenditures
Sweden’s COVID-19 National Policy
Health System Financing
Medical Personnel
Health System Physical Resources and Utilization
Long Term Services and Support
Medical Training
Pharmaceuticals
Political System
Economic System
Population Demographics
People With Disabilities
Aging
Social Determinants & Health Equity
Health System History
Health System Challenges
Demographics
Population: 10,036,000
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424). More information here.
Coverage
Population Health Coverage (%): 100%
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en. More information here.
Costs
Cost as Portion of GDP (%): 10.9%
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Expenditure Per Capita (US$): $5,711
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Annual Out of Pocket Spending Per Capita (US$): $821
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Nov. 15, 2019. More information here.
Outcomes
Care Ranking: 3
Source: GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. “Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 392,10159 (2018): 2091-2138. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32281-5. More information here.
Life Expectancy: 82.3 Years
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Infant Mortality (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births): 2
Source: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York. More information here.
Personnel
Doctors Per 10,000 Population: 54
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Nurses Per 10,000 Population: 115.4
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Useful Links:
The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
The Public Health Agency of Sweden
The Government Offices of Sweden
The Medical Products Agency
The National Board of Health and Welfare
The Swedish Association of Midwives
The Swedish eHealth Agency
Clinical Studies Sweden: The Swedish Healthcare System
Commonwealth Fund: The Swedish Health Care System
Government of Sweden: Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: Sweden
OECD Health: Sweden
Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
Swedish Social Insurance Agency
World Bank In Sweden
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe: Sweden
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Page last updated Sept. 21, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.
