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. 2024 Nov 16;24:3185. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20687-3

Table 1.

Risk of unintentional drownings between 2002–2021, between persons with Swedish vs non-Swedish country of origin over time. 1 = risk of drowning is equal between Swedish and non-Swedish persons. > 1 = risk of drowning is greater for persons with country of origin not Sweden. < 1 = risk of drowning is greater for persons with Sweden as country of origin

Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Swedish in total population (%) 85 85 84 84 84 83 82 81 81 80 80 79 79 78 77 76 75 75 74 74
Non-Swedish in total population (%) 15 15 16 16 16 17 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 26
Swedish in drowning population (%) 83 83 77 83 74 83 78 76 71 84 82 76 70 67 65 69 74 68 72 61
Non-Swedish in drowning population (%) 17 17 23 17 26 17 22 24 29 16 18 24 30 33 35 31 26 32 28 39
Odds Ratio 1.16 1.16 1.57 1.08 1.84 1.00 1.28 1.35 1.74 0.76 0.88 1.19 1.61 1.75 1.80 1.42 1.05 1.41 1.11 1.82