The volume of retail trade increased by 1.1 percent in November 2025 compared with October 2025. Retail sales in durables increased by 1.4 percent and retail sales in consumables (excluding Systembolaget, the state-owned chain of liquor stores) increased by 0.7 percent. These figures are working-day and seasonally adjusted and calculated in constant prices.
Just under half, 48 percent, of all voters in the 2024 European Parliament election voted in advance. It was more common among women, 49 percent, than among men, 46 percent. Older voters cast advance votes to a greater extent than younger voters. The highest proportion of advance voting was found in municipalities in northern Sweden.
The lending rate decreased or remained unchanged for all economic activities in October compared to September. The largest drop was recorded for office real estate, where the interest rate fell to 3.50 percent in October from 3.59 percent in September. For housing real estate companies, the interest rate decreased to 3.11 percent in October from 3.15 percent in September. Tenant owners’ associations faced the lowest interest rate of all economic activities at 2.89 percent in October, down from 2.91 percent in September.
In the third quarter of 2025, household liquid savings amounted to SEK 30 billion, which was an increase from SEK 17 billion in the corresponding quarter of 2024. Over the period under review, household annual loan growth rate has continued to increase.
A new report from Statistics Sweden follows people born in Sweden in 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2005 from birth to the year 2023, when they were 48, 38, 28, and 18 years old, respectively. The report compares, among other things, their infant mortality rates, how common it is to have grandparents alive, and the type of municipality they lived in at different ages.