New section · 1990 → 2024
Culture & values
Crime and demography measure what happens. This section measures how Sweden describes what happens — in opinion polls, agency reports, school curricula, press coverage and symbolic acts. Six time series from primary sources. No conclusions in the headlines.
01 · Value shift
Values over time — what Swedes answered 1990 → 2022
The World Values Survey and SOM Institute have asked the same questions for three decades. Trust is stable, religion's importance has risen, acceptance of homosexuality has moved 6.38 → 8.71 (1–10 scale), and opinion on immigration follows a U-curve: 61 % → 40 % → 53 %.
Acceptance of homosexuality (WVS scale 1–10)
6.38 (1990)→8.71 (2020)
02 · Reform archive
Decisions that shaped Sweden — 39 reforms, 1975–2024
Immigration policy, schools, EU, public service, values. Every decision carries an SFS or proposition number. Click a dot on the timeline to read the decision.
Major reform decisions across the five policy areas
≈ 12 (1975–1989)→≈ 27 (2000–2024)
03 · Institutional language
Government language — how the concepts changed, 1994 → 2022
No published time series tracks word frequency year by year across the full SOU corpus. The documents themselves exist, however. Three steering documents from three decades, same field, word for word.
Use of ‘intersectional’ in Sweden's gender-equality bills
0 (1994)→Standard term (2016 onwards)
04 · Symbol shift
Pride — from subculture to state participation
In 1998 Stockholm Pride had around ten sponsors. By 2023 it has 55 sponsors, police officers in uniform, the Armed Forces in the parade, and rainbow flags on 250–270 of 290 city halls.
Sponsors / partners of Stockholm Pride
≈ 5 (1998)→≈ 55 (2023)
05 · Healthcare 13–17
Adolescent gender dysphoria — Sweden's diagnoses, 2008–2023
New diagnoses for girls aged 13–17 went from ≈ 20 per year in 2008 to ≈ 800 per year in 2018. After the Karolinska guideline change (2021) and SBU (2022) the trend has turned downward.
New gender dysphoria diagnoses, girls 13–17 / year
≈ 20 (2008)→≈ 800 (2018, peak)
06 · Press archive
Headlines beside concurrent statistics (2000–2024)
Eight verified headlines from Swedish press and public broadcasting, each placed next to Brå and Migration Agency numbers from the same year. No analysis text — only date, quote, number.
Persons killed by firearms
10 (2000)→63 (2022)
Method
What the section measures — and does not measure
The section draws on published data from Statistics Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare, SBU, the World Values Survey, the European Social Survey, the SOM Institute, the National Agency for Education, the SOU archive, agencies' annual reports, and the Swedish press archive. Sources are stated for every figure.
The section does not measure individuals, minority behaviour or motives. It measures institutional patterns: opinion shifts, decisions, language, sponsorship, diagnoses, headline framing.
Interpretation is left to the reader. Where a linear projection is shown, it is mechanical — not a forecast.