Excellent destination
Excellent destination
Quality of life index out of 100
Sweden
Baltic Sea, Kattegat, Øresund · Swedish
Sweden
Sweden delivers top-tier quality of life at 67% of global costs — high purchasing power, balanced pace, and 195 QoL index for your Nordic reset.
What it's like to live in Sweden
Sweden is a Nordic country located in northern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordered by Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast. It has a long eastern coastline along the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, with a total coastline str...
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Healthcare
- Sweden's healthcare system is primarily tax-funded and decentralized, offering universal access to all legal residents.
- Access to public healthcare for expats requires a Swedish personal identity number (personnummer) and registration at a local healthcare center (vårdcentral).
- While public healthcare is high-quality and heavily subsidized, waiting times for non-emergency specialist appointments can be long.
Sweden, as a Schengen Area member, allows citizens of 59 visa-exempt countries—including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and most Latin American nations—to enter without a visa for short stays of up to 90 days within any 180-day period. This limit applies collectively across all 29 Schengen countries, not per country. Passports must be issued within the last 10 years and valid for at least 3 months beyond planned departure from the Schengen Area, with at...
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Data Source: Safety, crime, and quality metrics are sourced from Numbeo, a crowd-sourced global database of reported data.
All scores are relative comparisons on a 0-100 scale, where 50 = global average. Higher scores mean better than average, lower scores mean worse than average.
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