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The fiscal whole. NIER (Special Study 117, 2025) and ESO 2024 — the net result and the assumptions behind it.

The single most important variable. The employment gap between native- and foreign-born explains almost the entire cost — not origin itself.

Employment split by native/foreign-born, households on income support and total benefits paid. SCB AKU and Socialstyrelsen — the raw data behind the chapter.

41.4% of GDP in 2024 — eighth highest in the OECD, seven points above the average. What do we get for the money? Sources: OECD, Ekonomifakta.

SE1–SE4, the north/south gap and the 2022 price peak. Closed reactors, EU gas, weather — many causes, no simple conclusion.

Labour, family, refugee, student — four very different economic outcomes. Why averaged totals hide more than they show.

Does the outcome converge over generations? SCB data on education, employment and income for children of foreign-born.

Pensions, healthcare, elderly care over the life cycle. When costs arise and who bears them.

How costs distribute across a lifetime — childhood, working age, retirement. Breakdown of net contribution by age interval.

Long-term costs per immigration cohort — how outcomes differ between groups arriving under different periods and rules.

Outflow of highly educated and entrepreneurs. What Tillväxtanalys and Migration Agency emigration data show.

How population pressure and housing shortages translate into prices and rents — and where the effect is largest.

What it means in the municipal budget — social services, schools, income support. NIER model by immigration reason.

State flat-rate compensation rarely covers the full bill. Income support, SFI, schools and social services per Riksrevisionen, Statskontoret and SKR.

Turn the dials on employment, volume and composition yourself. See how the public economy responds to different assumptions.

Review of UO7 (~56 bn SEK). Volume, top recipients, deductions and critique from EBA, Riksrevisionen and OECD DAC.

Whole-picture data from Brå. Development over time, which crimes are rising or falling, and what research says about over-representation controlled for socioeconomics.

Share feeling unsafe outdoors, avoiding activities, and reported hate crimes. Official time series from Brå's NTU and hate-crime statistics.

Per capita comparison with Norway, Denmark, Finland. How Sweden went from norm to outlier in under 15 years.

Bombings in residential settings. Sweden leads the EU — the trend and what police say about perpetrator profile.

Reported and self-reported rape over time. Brå 2024 report on perpetrators' backgrounds.

NTU data on perceived safety outdoors after dark. Differences between neighbourhoods and ages.

Honour-related violence and oppression — scope, where it occurs, and the authorities' 20-year underestimate.

Police list of vulnerable, especially vulnerable and risk areas — criteria, development and what parallel societies mean.

How the list has grown and changed since 2015 — which areas added, which removed.

Protection fees, takeovers of restaurants and garages, infiltration of construction and public procurement.

Recruitment under age of criminal responsibility, child soldiers hired for murder, and limited tools of social services.

Brå recidivism data, Prison Service occupancy and three research perspectives on what works — without claiming an answer.

What research says about cameras' effect on crime — what they prevent, what they only displace, and where they work best.

Chapter entry point: 30–40 years of change in crime, demographics, trust, honour culture and business — with official sources and the headline charts.

Population, composition, economy, crime, schools. A compilation showing the magnitude of change.

SCB data on foreign-born and second generation over time. Pyramid and time series for the whole period.

Public debt is low (~32% of GDP) — the dependency ratio is the challenge. SCB projection to 2070.

Care guarantee (90 days), youth psychiatry wait times (30 days) and IVO criticism of elder care. Official statistics from SKR and IVO.

8.8-year queue in Stockholm 2024. Rent control — motives and critique without resolving the debate.

Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö — how the composition has changed neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

All 290 municipalities — foreign-born share, development 2000–2024 and projection.

Deep dive into which countries foreign-born residents came from, how the composition has shifted over time, and what it means demographically.

Share of pupils with Swedish as mother tongue in compulsory school, by municipality and over time. Skolverket data.

Pew, SST and SCB-based estimates of Muslim population over time — why the numbers vary and which range is reasonable.

Number of mosques, funding and denominations. What SST grant statistics show.

SOM Institute measurements. How high Swedish trust has developed — overall and broken down by domain.

PISA development 2000–2022 against the Nordics. Including National Audit Office report on pupils excluded from the 2018 measurement.

Year-9 upper-secondary eligibility, merit value and PISA 2000–2024, split by native/foreign-born. Skolverket and OECD — the raw data behind the chapter.

Look up your own municipality — population, economy, crime and vulnerable areas in one report.

Interactive Sweden maps: demographics, net cost, vulnerable areas. Click for full municipal report.

Long time series on immigration, asylum and net contribution. Turning points and political decisions in one.

Comparative figures for Denmark, Norway, Germany, Netherlands — net contribution and employment.

Policy and rules in comparable countries: language requirements, support requirements, citizenship, family migration.

National Board of Health incidence data for girls 13–17. The shift toward caution: Karolinska 2021, SBU 2022, Cass 2024.

Chapter entry point: values surveys, reform decisions, government language, Pride institutionalisation and media logic in one view.

World Values Survey and SOM. How Swedes answer questions on family, religion, authority and nation — then and now.

Timeline of the policy decisions — migration, integration and social policy — that led to today.

The road from 1975 to today — the parliamentary decisions, directives and rules that step by step shaped today's Sweden.

From the world's first freedom-of-the-press act in 1766 to today's 53 % reporting self-censorship. Laws that widened and restricted — and what the surveys say.

Freedom House, EIU and V-Dem rank Sweden high. Election pledges are kept 75–80 % of the time. The representation gap sits at ~30 %. Scrutiny, not campaign — you set the threshold.

From protest to partners on Resumé's list: authorities, large companies and banks as official sponsors.

Gender-segregated swimming, bathing times and association activities. Where it occurs and how it is justified.

How government texts have changed — what is removed, added and which terms have fallen out of use.

The gap between what statistics show and what news reporting highlights — selected cases with sources.

Three groups own 69% of the daily press. The public service fee moved to the tax bill in 2019. Trust is falling. Sources: Nordicom, MPRT, SOM.

Political promises from 1990 onward compared with statistical outcomes. Broken, half-kept and kept.

What do the numbers mean in practice? Concrete comparisons translating billions into everyday.

Tool to compare immigration, arrivals and net cost between any municipalities side by side.

Overlay any two time series across categories — see how crime, schools, economy and demographics move relative to each other.

Turn the dials on employment, volume and composition — see how the public economy responds.

Six concrete proposals for a better net contribution — support requirements, language requirements, labour and family migration. What each would mean in kronor.

A compilation of criticism already issued by the National Audit Office, JO, JK, KU, IMY, Statskontoret, EBA and public inquiries — with the agency's own reply. No editorial verdict, no scandal framing.