Life Expectancy at Birth (2016)
  – Male: 80.6; Female: 84.1; Both Genders: 82.3
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) (2015): 4
Neonatal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) (2017): 2
Probability of Dying from any of Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Chronic Respiratory Diseases Between Age 30 and Exact Age 70 (%) (2017):
  – Male: 10.7%; Female: 7.6%; Both Genders: 9.1%

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.

Neonatal Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2018): 2
Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2018): 2
Under-5 Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2018):
  Male: 3; Female: 2

Note: “Under-5 mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
“Infant mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 1 year of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
“Neonatal mortality rate – Probability of dying during the first 28 days of life, expressed per 1,000 live births.”

Source: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York.

Adverse events in hip and knee surgeries: post-operative pulmonary embolism (PE) or deep vein thrombosis (DVT), 2017 (Rate per 100,000 Discharges):
— PE: 193; DVT: 66.3
Obstetric trauma, vaginal delivery with instrument, 2016 (Crude rate per 100 instrument-assisted vaginal deliveries): 11.1
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) hospital admission in adults, 2017 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 169
Congestive heart failure (CHF) hospital admission in adults, 2017 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 234
Diabetes hospital admission in adults, 2017 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 79

Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en.

“In 2017, life expectancy at birth of the Swedish population was 82.5 years, more than 1.5 years above the EU average (80.9 years). Progress, however, has been slightly slower in Sweden than elsewhere in the EU. Between 2000 and 2017, Swedes gained 2.7 years of life, compared with 3.6 years for all EU citizens (Figure 1). The gender gap in Sweden has narrowed, as men have gained more years in life expectancy than women.”

Source: OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2019), Sweden: Country Health Profile 2019, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.

“In 2016, ischaemic heart disease represented almost 15% of all deaths in Sweden, but it had decreased substantially between 2000 and 2016 (Figure 3), partly because of the reduction in tobacco consumption (see Section 3). Stroke is still the second main cause of mortality, accounting for around 7 % of all deaths, despite also seeing a marked reduction since 2000.

“At the same time, mortality rates from Alzheimer’s disease have increased greatly since 2000, making it one of the leading causes of death. However, this strong increase is due largely to improvements in diagnosis and changes in death registration practices.

“Lung cancer and colorectal cancer are the most frequent causes of death by cancer, and mortality rates for these two have stayed roughly stable since 2000, remaining below EU averages.”

Source: OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2019), Sweden: Country Health Profile 2019, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.

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Page last updated May 18, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.