The highest number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Sweden as of January 11, 2023 was in the region of Stockholm, with 618,037. The second highest number was in the region Västra Götaland, with a total of 454,551 confirmed cases.

As of January 13, 2023, the number of confirmed cases in the country had reached a total of 2,687,840. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

As of January 13, 2023, Sweden had reported 2,687,840 confirmed coronavirus cases. Cases first started to rise sharply in spring 2020, when the number of new confirmed cases per day started to increase, however the peak was much higher in winter 2021/22.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

The coronavirus was officially declared as a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The novel coronavirus was first detected at a fish and seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Hubei province, in late December 2019. Since then, the virus reached over 668 million cases worldwide as of January 9, 2023.

Coronavirus-related deaths in Sweden

The first coronavirus related death in Sweden was reported on March 11, 2020 and as of January 13, 2023, the number of deaths reached a total of 22,645. The highest number of deaths occurred among the age group from 80 to 90 years old.

The 30 to 39 years old age group had the highest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Sweden as of January 11, 2023. In this age group, the number of infected reached a total of 503,059. It was followed by the 40 to 49 years old age group, where the number of cases reached a total of 483,753.

The first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was confirmed on February 4, 2020. The number of cases has since risen to a total of 2,687,840, as of January 2023. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

In 2023, the number of tuberculosis infections in Sweden decreased from the previous year and had a reported 362 cases. The lowest number of cases in this time interval was in 2020 with 335 cases, and it peaked in 2015 with 837 infection cases.

Between 2012 and 2022, there were more men than women among the victims of abuse in Sweden. In 2022, there were 84,000 abuse victims in the country, which was slightly more than the year before. Of these, more than 45,000 were men.

In 2023, the number of reported whooping cough cases in Sweden was 138, a significant increase from the previous year of merely 13 reported cases. The highest number of whooping cough cases during the provided time interval was in 2017 with 805 reported cases of whooping cough.

The number of HIV cases in Sweden fluctuated during the provided time interval, and amounted to 304 cases in 2023. The highest number of cases were in 2014 and 2018 when they amounted to 481. In 2022, 446 new cases of HIV were diagnosed in Sweden, which is a higher number than for its neighboring countries Denmark, Norway and Finland.

The most common disease group HIV is primarily spread through sexual contact or through blood contact, and in Sweden in 2023, the most common ages among the transmitted was individuals from 30 to 39 years, and there were more transmissions among men than women.
 

Increase in other sexually transmitted diseases The spread of HIV in Sweden is today limited, to a large extent because of rapid diagnosis and efficient treatment to basically all transmitted. Furthermore, the long-term increase of chlamydia that has been going on for years seems to have stopped, and the number of chlamydia cases are decreasing. However, the spread of other sexually transmitting diseases have an opposite trend. The number of syphilis infection cases has been increasing since 2014, and according to Folkhälsomyndigheten (the Public Health Agency of Sweden), it is especially worrying that the previously low spread of gonorrhea is also increasing.

On January 13, 2023, Sweden registered 715 new coronavirus cases. The first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was confirmed on January 31, 2020. The number of cases in the country has since risen to a total of 2,687,840.

The worldwide number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 was over 668 million as of January 9, 2023. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

This statistic shows the reported cases of syphilis infection in Sweden between 2013 and 2023. In 2023, there were 566 reported cases of syphilis, the second-highest number of cases in the provided time interval.

The number of new lung cancer cases diagnosed in Sweden fluctuated during the period from 2010 to 2023, and the highest number was in 2018 at 4,832 cases. Since then, cases have decreased, and there were 4,710 cases of lung cancer diagnosed in 2023.

The number of cases of gonorrhea in Sweden increased from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, the number of gonorrhea cases peaked at 4,215. This statistic displays the number of gonorrhea cases in Sweden from 2013 to 2023.

The highest number of new cancer cases in Sweden in 2023 was among men from 75 to 84 years, where the number of new cases amounted to around 14.9 thousand. The number of new cases among women in the same age group was around 11.1 thousand.

1,359 of the confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Sweden as of March 26, 2020 reported to have been infected in the home country. This was the country from which the highest number of Swedish coronavirus cases originated. The country from where the second highest number of Swedish infection cases originated from was Italy, with 478 cases.

The first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was confirmed on January 31, 2020. The number of cases in Sweden increased significantly at the beginning of March. By March 26, 2020, the number of confirmed cases in the country had reached a total of 2,806. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

In 2013, the number of salmonella infections in Sweden was the highest in the period under consideration at 2,838 cases. The lowest number of cases of the period was in 2020 at 826, while in 2022 the number of cases amounted to 1,138. This statistic displays the number of salmonella infection cases in Sweden from 2013 to 2022.

The number of reported hepatitis A infection cases in Sweden fluctuated from 2013 to 2023. In 2018, the number of infected people peaked at 123, while there were 66 reported hepatitis A infection cases in 2023.

In 2022, the number of cases of pulmonary only tuberculosis in Sweden amounted to 210, while the number of extrapulmonary cases amounted to 117. This statistic depicts the number of tuberculosis cases in Sweden in 2022, by site of disease.

In Sweden, the total number of victims of child abuse increased over the past 10 years. The number of victims aged seven to 14 accounted for the highest number of these, increasing from nearly 8,800 in 2013 to over 13,700 in 2022. In total, there were registered 24,502 victims of child abuse in Sweden that year.

The number of stroke cases reported among patients from 85 years or older in Sweden reached around 6.7 thousand in 2023. The second-highest number of cases were in the age group from 75 to 79 years, at around five thousand cases.

Most of the syphilis infection cases reported in Sweden in 2023 were transmitted in Sweden. These cases amounted to 365 of the total 566 cases that were reported in Sweden that year.

This statistic shows the number of cardiac arrest cases in Sweden in 2017, by gender and age group. Most cases were found among men aged 70 to 79 years, amounting to over 17 thousand cases. The cases among women in this age group amounted to around 7.6 thousand.