Non-citizen crime trends
Recorded justice outcomes over the years.
This dataset reports all offences together; an offence-by-nationality breakdown is not available here. Choose another dataset above for the available offence categories.
All reported offences
Sweden · Prison population
Data 2014–2024 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026
Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.
Published 29 Apr 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026
Source period: 2014-01-01–2024-12-31
Release schedule: Annual; check for updates weekly.
Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.
How updates are checked →Average of the selected annual snapshots. Summing prison populations would repeatedly count some of the same people.
Foreign citizens over time
2014–2024These are prison population snapshots, not the number of crimes committed each year.
Definitions & limitations
All offences covered by the national source, including immigration offences where recorded. These are citizenship categories. They cannot identify immigrants or unauthorized residents. National definitions differ; do not rank countries by these counts.
These data identify citizenship or nationality. They do not separately identify foreign-born people or naturalized citizens. Counts are not population rates, and changes can reflect reporting, enforcement or justice-system practices.
| Period | Foreign citizens · people | Source notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 · prison snapshot | 2,397 | — |
| 2023 · prison snapshot | 2,252 | — |
| 2022 · prison snapshot | 2,081 | — |
| 2021 · prison snapshot | 2,001 | — |
| 2020 · prison snapshot | 1,466 | — |
| 2019 · prison snapshot | 1,414 | — |
| 2018 · prison snapshot | 1,319 | — |
| 2017 · prison snapshot | 1,240 | — |
| 2016 · prison snapshot | 1,274 | — |
| 2015 · prison snapshot | 1,325 | — |
| 2014 · prison snapshot | 1,324 | — |
Foreign-born and naturalized-citizen series are not separately reported in these datasets. Naturalized citizens are included in citizen counts and are not added to this graph. Data coverage →