What do Swedish people think about abortion?
Social axis · 🇸🇪 Sweden · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
75% of Swedish respondents take the position “A woman should be able to end a pregnancy if she asks.”, against 8% for “The law should limit abortion in most cases.”, with 17% choosing neither. n = 112, margin of error ±9.6, weighted to Sweden's adult population.
Where Sweden sits on social
What is measured about Sweden on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Births per woman
UN World Population Prospects · 2024
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1.4 |
lower than most countries
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Life expectancy
UN World Population Prospects · 2024
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84.1 years |
among the highest in the world
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Tertiary enrolment
UNESCO UIS · 2024
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84.0% |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on abortion
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · The law should limit abortion in most cases.
B · A woman should be able to end a pregnancy if she asks.
World, unweighted: 45% A ·
21% neither ·
34% B · n = 4740
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75% B 🇸🇪 n=112 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Sweden public opinion on abortion
- Abortion poll sweden
- What do swedish people think about abortion
- What percentage of swedish people support abortion
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.