Sweden Poverty Headcount
Sweden poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 16.10%.
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Interpretation
Sweden recorded 16.10% for Poverty Headcount in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator increased by 0.10 percentage points, from 16.00% to 16.10%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (16.13%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 15.60% in 2013 and the high was 17.10% in 2018.