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title: "Is Sweden a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Sweden (Stockholm): 217.6 Mbps internet, safety 93/100, healthcare 85/100 — essentials ≈ $1,945/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/sweden/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 7/167

# Is 🇸🇪 Sweden (Stockholm) a good place to live?

Quality score **91/100** against essentials of **$1,945/month**. Excellent fibre and air; long dark winters are the unlisted metric.

## The five metrics

Internet 87 217.6 Mbps median broadband, 95.8% online

Safety 93 1.1 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 85 UHC service coverage 85/100 (2023)

Air quality 100 PM2.5 4.8 µg/m³ (2023)

English 92 day-to-day usability

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: very strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.73 · corruption control 1.97 · stability 0.6 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $55.15 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $24.25/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,945) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.0× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.5× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.6× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/sweden/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇭🇳 Honduras](https://geo-parity.com/livability/honduras/) — quality 43.2, essentials $920/mo
- [🇲🇽 Mexico](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mexico/) — quality 53, essentials $1,122/mo
- [🇳🇱 Netherlands](https://geo-parity.com/livability/netherlands/) — quality 88.9, essentials $1,905/mo
- [🇳🇿 New Zealand](https://geo-parity.com/livability/new-zealand/) — quality 93.4, essentials $2,008/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/cost-of-living/united-states-vs-sweden/) · [retiring in Sweden](https://geo-parity.com/fire/sweden/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Sweden a good place to live for remote workers?**: Sweden scores 91/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 217.6 Mbps, safety 93, healthcare 85, air quality 100, english 92) — rank 7 of 167. Excellent fibre and air; long dark winters are the unlisted metric.
- **How fast is the internet in Sweden?**: Median fixed broadband is around 217.6 Mbps. Excellent fibre and air; long dark winters are the unlisted metric.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Sweden?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,945/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.5× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/sweden/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json