November 2017 How’s Life in Sweden?

[Pages:8]How's Life in Sweden?

How's Life in Sweden?

Sweden's current well-being, 2018 or latest available year

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

INCOME AND WEALT H

SOCIAL CONNECT IONS

WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Hav ing Voter no say in turnout gov ernment* Lack of social support* Social interactions

Gender gap in hours w orked*

Household

income

House-

hold w ealth

S80/S20 income

share ratio*

Housing affordability

Ov ercrow ding

rate*

HOUSING

Employ ment rate

Time off

Gender

WORK AND

Gender

w age gap*

JOB QUALITY

SAFET Y

gap in feeling safe

Long hours in paid w ork*

Homicides*

Life

Negative

ex pectancy

affect

Gap in life

SUBJECT IVE WELL-BEING

AVERAGE

balance* Life

ex pectancy by

satisfaction

Student education

Ex posure to outdoor air Access pollution* to green

space

Students skills in w ith science

low skills*

(men)*

HEALT H

INEQUALIT Y

ENVIRONMENT AL QUALIT Y

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Note: This chart shows Sweden's relative strengths and weaknesses in well-being compared to other OECD countries. Longer bars always indicate better outcomes (i.e. higher wellbeing), whereas shorter bars always indicate worse outcomes (lower well-being) ? including for negative indicators, marked with an *, which have been reverse-scored. Inequalities (gaps between top and bottom, differences between groups, people falling under a deprivation threshold) are shaded with stripes, and missing data in white.

Sweden's resources for future well-being, 2018 or latest available year

Natural Capital Greenhouse gas emissions per capita

Material footprint

Economic Capital

Produced fixed assets

Financial net worth of government

Human Capital

Educational attainment of young adults

Premature mortality

Social Capital

... Trust in others

Trust in government

Red List Index of threatened species

Household debt

Labour underutilisation rate

Gender parity in politics

Note: =top-performing OECD tier, =middle-performing OECD tier, =bottom-performing OECD tier. indicates consistent improvement; indicates no clear or consistent trend; indicates consistent deterioration, and "..." indicates insufficient time series to determine trends since 2010. For methodological details, see the Reader's Guide of How's Life? 2020.

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Deprivations in Sweden Deprivations in selected indicators of current well-being, 2018 or latest available year

SWEDEN

9%

of the population live in relative income poverty

23%

of poor households spend more than 40% of their income on housing costs

There is no data available on financial insecurity

5%

of the population report low life satisfaction

8%

say they have no friends or family to turn to in times of need

11%

are not satisfied with how they spend their time

Source: OECD (2020), How's Life? 2020: Measuring Well-Being

Note: Relative income poverty refers to the share of people with household disposable income below 50% of the national median; financial insecurity refers to the share of individuals who are not income poor, but whose liquid financial assets are insufficient to support them at the level of the national relative income poverty line for at least three months; housing cost overburden refers to the share of households in the bottom 40% of the income distribution spending more than 40% of their disposable income on housing costs; and low satisfaction with life and with time use refer to the share of the population rating their satisfaction as 4 or lower (on a 0-10 scale).

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 3 Inequalities between men and women in Sweden Gender ratios (distance from parity) for selected indicators of current well-being, 2018 or latest available year

Feeling safe

0.74

Job strain

0.85

Earnings

0.93

Employment rate

0.95

Adult skills (numeracy)

0.95

Perceived health

Hours worked (paid and unpaid)

Life satisfaction

0.95 0.98 1.00

Social support

1.02

Student skills (science)

Satisfaction with personal relationships

Life expectancy

1.02 1.03 1.04

Social interactions

Having a say in government Long-term

unemployment rate Deaths from suicide,

alcohol, drugs

Homicide victims

Long working hours (in paid work)

Men doing better

OECD average

1.14 1.16 1.36 // 2.47 // 2.60 // 2.98 Women doing better

Note: Grey bubbles denote no clear difference between men and women, defined as gender ratios within 0.03 points distance to parity.

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Inequalities between age groups in Sweden Age ratios (distance from parity) for selected indicators of current well-being, 2018 or latest available year

A. Younger and middle-aged people

Employment rate // 0.52

Job strain

0.66

Earnings

0.67

Having a say in government

Adult skills (numeracy)

Long working hours (in paid work)

Life satisfaction

0.94 0.97 0.98 1.00

Feeling safe

Satisfaction with personal relationships

Social support

Satisfaction with time use

Long-term unemployment rate

1.01 1.03 1.05 1.09

// 1.82

Middle-aged people doing better OECD average Younger people doing better

B. Younger and older people

Job strain // 0.53

Employment rate // 0.58

Earnings 0.64

Satisfaction with time use

Satisfaction with personal relationships

Long working hours (in paid work)

Life satisfaction

0.91 0.97 0.98 0.98

Adult skills (numeracy)

Having a say in government

Social support

1.02 1.06 1.09

Feeling safe

Long-term unemployment rate

1.12 // 2.39

Older people doing better OECD average Younger people doing better

Note: Age ranges differ according to each indicator and are only broadly comparable. They generally refer to 15-24/29 years for young people, 25/30 to 45/50 years for the middle-aged and 50 years and over for older people. See How's Life? 2020 for further details. Grey bubbles denote no clear difference between age groups, defined as age ratios within 0.03 points distance to parity.

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 5 Inequalities between people with different educational attainment in Sweden Education ratios (distance from parity) for selected indicators of current well-being, 2018 or latest available year

Job strain // 0.31

Having a say in government Long-term

unemployment rate

Earnings

0.78 0.86 0.87

Perceived health

0.88

Life expectancy (men)

0.95

Life expectancy (women)

0.96

Employment rate

0.96

Feeling safe

0.97

Life satisfaction

0.99

Social support

1.00

Satisfaction with personal relationships

Satisfaction with time use

Long working hours (in paid work)

1.03 1.06 1.07

People with tertiary education doing better OECD average People with upper secondary education doing better

Note: Grey bubbles denote no clear difference between groups with different educational attainment, defined as education ratios within 0.03 points distance to parity.

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6 Inequalities between top and bottom performers in Sweden Vertical inequalities for selected indicators of current well-being, 2018 or latest available year

Household income of the top 20% relative to the bottom 20%

12

90

80 10

70

8

60

50

6

5.4

40 4.2

4

30

20 2

10

0

0

Share of wealth owned by the top 10%, percentage 51.7

Earnings of the top 10% relative to the bottom 10%, full-time employees

6

5

4 3.4

3

2

1

0

PISA score in science of the top 10% relative to the bottom 10%

2

1.69

1.67

1 2.1

0

Life satisfaction scores of the top 20% relative to the bottom 20%

4

4

3

3

2.1

1.9

2

2

1

1

0

0

Satisfaction with time use scores of the top 20% relative to the bottom 20%

2.78 2.51

Note: For all figures, countries are ranked from left (most unequal) to right (least unequal).

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 7 Trends in current well-being since 2010 in Sweden - I

Income and Wealth

Household income (household net adjusted disposable income,

USD at 2017 PPPs*, per capita)

Average

Household wealth (median net wealth, USD at 2016 PPPs)

Average

OECD ~ 28 000

SWE ~32 500

No data available for Sweden.

Housing

S80/S20 income share ratio (the household income for the top 20%, divided by the household income for the

bottom 20%)

Inequality

Housing affordability (share of disposable income remaining after

housing costs)

Average

Overcrowding rate (share of households living in overcrowded

conditions)

Inequality

Employment rate (employed people aged 25-64, as a share of

the population of the same age)

Average

OECD

SWE

5.4

4.2

OECD SWE

79.2

80.5

SWE OECD 13 12

OECD

SWE

76.5

84.8

Work and Job Quality

Gender wage gap (difference between male and female median wages expressed as a share of male wages)

Inequality

Long hours in paid work (share of employees usually working 50+

hours per week)

Inequality

OECD SWE

12.9

7.3

OECD

SWE

7

1.1

Health

Life expectancy (number of years a newborn can expect to

live)

Average

OECD SWE

80.5

82.5

Note: The snapshot depicts data for 2018, or the latest available year, for each indicator. The colour of the circle indicates the direction of change, relative to 2010, or the closest available year: = consistent improvement, = consistent deterioration, = no clear trend, and white for insufficient time series to determine trends. The OECD average is marked in black. For methodological details, see the Reader's Guide of How's Life? 2020. * = Purchasing Power Parity.

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8 Trends in current well-being since 2010 in Sweden - II

Skills

Student skills in science (PISA mean scores)

Average

Environmental Knowledge and

Quality

Exposure to outdoor air pollution (share of population > WHO threshold)

Inequality

Subjective Well-being

Life satisfaction (mean value on a 0-10 scale)

Average

Negative affect balance (share of population reporting more negative than positive feelings and states yesterday)

Inequality

Homicides (per 100 000 population)

Average

Safety

Gender gap in feeling safe (percentage difference that women feel less safe than men when walking alone at night)

Inequality

Time off (time allocated to leisure and personal care,

hours per day)

Average

Work-life Balance

Social Connections

Social interactions (hours per week)

Average

Lack of social support (share of people who report having no friends or relatives whom they can count on in times

of trouble)

Inequality

Civic Engagement

Voter turnout (share of registered voters who cast votes)

Average

Note: See note on page 7.

OECD SWE

489

499

OECD

SWE

62.8

3

OECD

SWE

7.4

7.8

OECD 13

SWE 8.6

OECD SWE

2.4

0.9

SWE

OECD

-24.0

-16

No data availble for Sweden.

OECD

SWE

6

6

OECD SWE

8.6

8.1

OECD

SWE

69

87

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