What do Swedish people think about foreign wars?
Force axis · 🇸🇪 Sweden · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published Swedish reading yet. DataRadio holds 75 Swedish answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 25 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where Sweden sits on force
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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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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2.0% |
somewhat above the middle
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Armed forces personnel
IISS Military Balance · 2020
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15,000 |
somewhat below the middle
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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 foreign wars
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 · No country should meddle inside another, whatever is going on there.
B · What a country does to its own people can be the world's business.
World, unweighted: 53% A ·
22% neither ·
25% B · n = 3882
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🇸🇪 n=75 of 100 |
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A · We should not go to war over someone else's quarrel.
B · We should be ready to go to war to defend a friend.
World, unweighted: 49% A ·
24% neither ·
27% B · n = 3958
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🇸🇪 n=76 of 100 |
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 foreign wars
- Foreign wars poll sweden
- What do swedish people think about foreign wars
- What percentage of swedish people support foreign wars
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.