Table 2.

Trends in the number of births in Sweden, by month in 2021–22.

Source Calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (2023)

	Live births 2021	Live births 2022	Change 2021 vs. 2020 (in %)	Change 2022 vs. 2021 (in %)	Change 2021 vs. mean 2016–20 (in %)	Change 2022 vs. mean 2016–20 (in %)
January	9 071	8 917	− 6,26	− 1,70	− 5,20	− 6,81
February	8 989	8 546	0,39	− 4,93	− 0,02	− 4,95
March	10 067	9 194	4,36	− 8,67	1,12	− 7,65
April	9 823	8 816	1,13	− 10,25	− 1,92	− 11,98
May	10 322	9 580	− 0,83	− 7,19	− 1,72	− 8,78
June	10 216	9 531	3,43	− 6,71	1,75	− 5,07
July	10 325	9 232	2,04	− 10,59	− 0,69	− 11,21
August	10 082	9 369	1,24	− 7,07	− 0,94	− 7,94
September	9 419	8 374	1,03	− 11,09	− 1,60	− 12,52
October	9 316	8 147	1,55	− 12,55	− 0,20	− 12,72
November	8 492	7 506	3,64	− 11,61	0,40	− 11,26
December	8 141	7 522	1,34	− 7,60	− 1,22	− 8,73