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. It peaked at 61 partners in 2024; in 2025 the number fell to 53 (Resumé). Police still march in uniform, the Armed Forces join the parade, and rainbow flags fly on 250–270 of 290 city halls.
Sponsors / partners of Stockholm Pride
≈ 5 (1998)→53 (2025) — peak 61 (2024)
05 · Healthcare 13–17
Adolescent gender dysphoria — Sweden's diagnoses, 2008–2023
New F64 diagnoses for girls aged 13–17 rose from ≈ 20/year (2008) to ≈ 800/year (2018) in the Swedish National Patient Register. These figures count registered diagnoses, which can be driven by several factors — greater awareness, reduced stigma, changed referral pathways and diagnostic criteria — and do not necessarily reflect an equally large rise in the underlying condition. 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 · Curriculum & identity
School, preschool and gender identity — the curriculum and Europe's reappraisal
Sweden's preschool curriculum (Lpfö 18) instructs staff to ‘actively and consciously’ counter traditional gender patterns and treats gender-crossing identity or expression as a protected category — from one year of age. Over the same period Finland, Sweden's own health authority, Norway, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, France and more than twenty US states have restrained medical gender-affirmation for minors.
Countries tightening guidelines on minors since 2020
0 (2019)→≈ 8 national + ≈ 25 US states (2025)
07 · 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.