New section · 1990 → 2024
Culture, values & institutions
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. Seven reviews from named sources. No conclusions in the headlines.
01 · Value shift
Values over time — what Swedes answered 1990 → 2025
World Values Survey (Sweden 1996, 2006, 2011): the share saying religion is very or rather important was 26–29 %, the share very or quite proud to be Swedish 82–85 %, and the share saying homosexuality is ‘always’ justifiable rose from 35 % to 59 %. SOM: 61 % thought receiving fewer refugees was a good proposal in 1990, 59 % in 2020 and 53 % in 2025.
Homosexuality ‘always justifiable’ (WVS, share answering 10 of 10)
34.6 % (1996)→59.3 % (2011)
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
6 (1975–1989)→33 (1990–2024)
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. Two curricula from 1994 and 2022, the same section on the school's core values, word for word.
Use of ‘intersectional’ in Sweden's gender-equality bills
0 (1994)→Standard term (2016 onwards)
04 · Culture & values
Stockholm Pride — organisation and partnerships
Stockholm Pride describes itself as a non-profit association working since 1998. It offers several partnership levels with different visibility and displays a list labelled Partners 2026.
Organisation and partnerships
Non-profit association→Several partnership levels
05 · Healthcare 13–17
Youth gender dysphoria — what diagnosis statistics show
Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare report 2020-2-6600 describes an increase in newly diagnosed individuals, particularly among 13–17-year-olds recorded as female at birth. Figure 3 on page 7 reports new individuals per 100,000, not the previously displayed absolute annual counts.
National Patient Register
Registered diagnosis→Not population prevalence
06 · Curriculum & identity
School, preschool and gender identity — the curriculum and Europe's reappraisal
Lpfö 18 states that preschool shall ‘actively and consciously’ promote all children's equal rights regardless of gender and ‘has a responsibility to counter gender patterns that limit children's development, choices and learning’. The Discrimination Act separately protects all children in preschool — which in Sweden normally starts around age one — against discrimination based on gender-crossing identity or expression. Over the same period Finland (COHERE 2020) and Sweden (National Board of Health and Welfare 2022) recommended restraint in hormone treatment of minors, the UK restricted puberty-blocker prescribing by decision in 2024, and Norway (Ukom 2023) and France (Académie nationale de médecine 2022) recommended caution; 27 US states have enacted laws or policies limiting such care (KFF).
Countries/states restricting or recommending caution for minors since 2020
0 (2019)→5 countries in the text (1 decision, 4 recommendations) + 27 US states with law/policy, 25 in force (KFF, 2026)
07 · Press archive
Headlines beside concurrent statistics (2015–2024)
Three headlines from SVT and DN plus Brå's own 2024 press release, beside named statistics from the same year. All four have been checked against the publisher's original; a headline is not a quote from any interviewee. The pairing shows contemporaneity; it tests a headline only when both address the same measurable proposition.
Confirmed lethal violence with firearms (Brå)
33 (2015)→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.