Sweden

Capital city — Stockholm

Country population
10,353,442
i
2020
/ World Bank
Type of government
Constitutional Monarchy
Human Development Index
0.945
(7/188)
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2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
1.1
i
2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
7,000
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01/05/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
65
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01/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
4
i
2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 124.
Prison density
102 %
i
01/05/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
79
i
2015
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2005
Female prisoners
6.1 %
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46
Incarcerated minors
0.3 %
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01/10/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
28 %
(1.875)
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01/10/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1972

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Safeguards

Physical integrity

Number of deaths in custody

3

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2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

Number of deaths attributed to suicide

1

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2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

Death rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

4.5

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2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

Suicide rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

1.5

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2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies

An NPM has been established

yes, in 2005