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Statistics about Swedish libraries

Publicly funded libraries that are staffed at least half-time are surveyed each year about the activities they conducted the previous year. The final statistics for the preceding year are published in May.

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Access Library statistics

On this page, you can view and download statistics on Sweden's public libraries, academic libraries, hospital libraries and special libraries.

Public, academic, hospital and special libraries that are staffed at least part-time are surveyed annually about their activities during the previous year.

View the statistics

The latest statistics for public, academic, hospital and special libraries are presented below.

Statistics for 2025

Statistics from previous years

If you would like to view statistics from previous years, go to the National Library of Sweden’s list of publications (in Swedish) External link.. From 2015 to 2023, school library statistics were included in the compilation of statistics for other types of libraries.

What the library statistics include

The library statistics provide information on, among other things:

  • the number of loans, downloads, and purchases of various types of media
  • the number of in-person and online visits
  • opening hours
  • the number of organised activities
  • the number of employees, as well as their gender distribution

Examples of information not included in the statistics:

Preliminary and final statistics

As soon as the first responses are received, preliminary statistics are published, on an ongoing basis, for each responding library organisation. You can access these responses in the library statistics database (in Swedish) External link.. The data is also available as linked open data via the National Library of Sweden’s APIs.

The final statistics for public, academic, hospital and special libraries are published in May each year. In the library statistics database, you can generate activity reports, covering up to three years, for individual libraries.