The first death case related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was reported on March 11, 2020. The number of deaths has since increased to a total of 22,645 as of January 13, 2023. The number of people who were or had been confirmed infected by the virus in the country had reached a total of 2,687,840 as of January 13, 2023.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

As of January 11, 2023, the highest number of deaths due to the coronavirus in Sweden was among individuals aged 80 to 90 years old. In this age group there were 9,124 deaths as a result of the virus. The overall Swedish death toll was 22,645 as of January 11, 2023.

The first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was confirmed on February 4, 2020. The number of cases has since risen to over 2.68 million, as of January 2023. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Sweden recorded 24166 Coronavirus Deaths since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Sweden reported 2708122 Coronavirus Cases. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Sweden Coronavirus Deaths.

In past 24 hours, Sweden, Europe had N/A new cases, N/A deaths and 18 recoveries.

Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Context

Covid-19 is a global pandemic which requires a global effort to enable innovative solutions. We hope that this dataset will encourage such thinking and bring us closer to mapping an uncertain future for Sweden and the world.

Content

This data represents both confirmed cases and confirmed deaths from Covid-19 in Sweden by region per day. It is updated regularly and get transferred here as soon as an update is made. The data is collected from the National Health Agency of Sweden (Folkshälsomyndigheten) as well as regional health agencies for more up-to-date information.

Acknowledgements

All the credit for this dataset goes to Elin Lutz. All the data is updated from her Github repository https://github.com/elinlutz/gatsby-map.

Inspiration

The author also provides a live map of Sweden viewable at https://www.coronakartan.se/.

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The highest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the Nordic countries as of October 27, 2024, had occurred in Sweden at 28,006. Finland followed with 11,466 deaths, Denmark with 9,919, and Norway with 5,732. Denmark was the Nordic country with the highest number of people confirmed infected with COVID-19, reaching a total of 3,442,484 cases as of October 27, 2024. More statistics and facts about the virus are available here.

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.

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9th November 2020

Context

With European governments struggling with a 'second-wave' of rising cases, hospitalizations and deaths resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19), I wanted to make a comparative analysis between the data coming out of major European nations since the start of the pandemic.

It has been well publicized that Sweden has taken a different approach to most Western European nations when it comes to public policy regarding COVID-19. This has drawn significant attention from across the world and so, allied to the fact that Sweden publishes it's data in a clear and understandable way that is easy to access, it seemed like a good place to start.

In time, I hope to construct other European national datasets for direct comparison - probably starting with my own country, the United Kingdom.

I also should say I am not an Epidemiologist, Sociologist or even a Data Scientist. I am actually a Mechanical Engineer! The objective here is to improve my data science skills and maybe provide some useful data to the wider community.

Acknowledgements

This data was obtained from the Official Swedish COVID-19 Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) website: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa/page/page_0/

The notebook used to obtained is public and can be found here: https://www.kaggle.com/vascodegama/sweden-covid-19-data-scrape

Updates

It is my understanding that the weekly data is published by the Swedish Health Agency every 2pm (CET) on a Thursday so the initial aim is to update the whole dataset each Friday.

Any questions, comments or suggestions are most welcome! I am open to requests and collaborations! Stay Safe!

The number of deaths per week in Sweden was higher from week 12 to week 26 in 2020 than it was in the years 2015 to 2019. Moreover, it increased from week 46 in 2020 and fell below the average of 2015 to 2019 in week five in 2021. Several of the deaths in 2020 were related to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2022, the number of deaths per week decreased from week seven, but was high in the last weeks of the year and the first weeks of 2023, before falling again. Causes of death In 2022, diseases of the circulatory system were the most common cause of death in Sweden. Over 28,000 deaths were caused by this type of disease that year. Cancerous tumors caused the second highest number of deaths in Sweden. COVID-19 in Sweden Sweden is the Nordic country that has reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic. All in all, the number of deaths in Sweden in 2023 amounted to nearly 95,000.

ECDC: COVID-2019: Number of Deaths: Sweden data was reported at 0.000 Person in 14 Dec 2020. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Person for 13 Dec 2020. ECDC: COVID-2019: Number of Deaths: Sweden data is updated daily, averaging 6.000 Person from Dec 2019 (Median) to 14 Dec 2020, with 350 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 115.000 Person in 16 Apr 2020 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 14 Dec 2020. ECDC: COVID-2019: Number of Deaths: Sweden data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table ECDC.D001: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019): Cases and Deaths: by EU Member States (Discontinued).

As of January 13, 2023, Bulgaria had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths among its population in Europe at 548.6 deaths per 100,000 population. Hungary had recorded 496.4 deaths from COVID-19 per 100,000. Furthermore, Russia had the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Europe, at over 394 thousand.

Number of cases in Europe During the same period, across the whole of Europe, there have been over 270 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. France has been Europe's worst affected country with around 38.3 million cases, this translates to an incidence rate of approximately 58,945 cases per 100,000 population. Germany and Italy had approximately 37.6 million and 25.3 million cases respectively.

Current situation In March 2023, the rate of cases in Austria over the last seven days was 224 per 100,000 which was the highest in Europe. Luxembourg and Slovenia both followed with seven day rates of infections at 122 and 108 respectively.

This dataset shows statistics for COVID-19 in Sweden on the number of reported confirmed cases, intensive care of illnesses and deaths per sex.

The lockdown effect on COVID-19 infections and deaths.

WHO: COVID-2019: Number of Patients: Death: To-Date: Sweden data was reported at 16,100.000 Person in 04 Feb 2022. This stayed constant from the previous number of 16,100.000 Person for 03 Feb 2022. WHO: COVID-2019: Number of Patients: Death: To-Date: Sweden data is updated daily, averaging 12,248.500 Person from Jan 2020 to 04 Feb 2022, with 736 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16,100.000 Person in 04 Feb 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 11 Mar 2020. WHO: COVID-2019: Number of Patients: Death: To-Date: Sweden data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Health Organization. The data is categorized under Daily Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table WHO.D001: World Health Organization: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019): by Country and Region.

This Project Tycho dataset includes a CSV file with COVID-19 data reported in SWEDEN: 2019-12-30 - 2021-07-31. It contains counts of cases and deaths. Data for this Project Tycho dataset comes from: "COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University", "European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Website", "World Health Organization COVID-19 Dashboard". The data have been pre-processed into the standard Project Tycho data format v1.1.

This dataset shows statistics for COVID-19 in Sweden per region on the number of reported confirmed cases, disease cases per 100 000 inhabitants, intensive care cases and deaths.

This dataset shows statistics for COVID-19 in Sweden on the number of reported confirmed cases, intensively managed disease cases and deaths per age group.

PDF contains supplementary information to the paper: Mortality displacement: Vulnerable “dry tinder” elders in Sweden prior to COVID-19 may partially account for excess deaths.Spreadsheet contains all calculations related to the paper: Mortality displacement: Vulnerable “dry tinder” elders in Sweden prior to COVID-19 may partially account for excess deaths.

11th January 2020 Change to vaccination data made available by UK gov - now just cumulative number of vaccines delivered are available for both first and second doses. For the devolved nations the cumulative totals are available for the dates from when given, however for the UK as a whole the total doses given is just on the last date of the index, regardless of when those vaccines were given.

4th January 2020 VACCINATION DATA ADDED - New and Cumulative First Dose Vaccination Data added to UK_National_Total_COVID_Dataset.csv and UK_Devolved_Nations_COVID_Dataset.csv

2nd December 2020:

NEW population, land area and population density data added in file NEW_Official_Population_Data_ONS_mid-2019.csv. This data is scraped from the Office for National Statistics and covers the UK, devolved UK nations, regions and local authorities (boroughs).

20th November 2020:

With European governments struggling with a 'second-wave' of rising cases, hospitalisations and deaths resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19), I wanted to make a comparative analysis between the data coming out of major European nations since the start of the pandemic.

I started by creating a Sweden COVID-19 dataset and now I'm looking at my own country, the United Kingdom.

The data comes from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ and I used the Developer's Guide to scrape the data, so it was a fairly simple process. The notebook that scapes the data is public and can be found here. Further information about data collection methodologies and definitions can be found here.

The data includes the overall numbers for the UK as a whole, the numbers for each of the devolved UK nations (Eng, Sco, Wal & NI), English Regions and Upper Tier Local Authorities (UTLA) for all of the UK (what we call Boroughs). I have also included a small table with the populations of the 4 devolved UK nations, used to calculate the death rates per 100,000 population.

As I've said for before - I am not an Epidemiologist, Sociologist or even a Data Scientist. I am actually a Mechanical Engineer! The objective here is to improve my data science skills and maybe provide some useful data to the wider community.

Any questions, comments or suggestions are most welcome! I am open to requests and collaborations! Stay Safe!