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Features · Power & Consequence · Published 5 August 2026

Sweden has put 660,000 people inside a new map of exclusion.

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Updated 12:29 · 2 min read

An aerial view across apartment blocks, houses, roads, woodland and water north of central Stockholm.
An aerial view across apartment blocks, houses, roads, woodland and water north of central Stockholm.. Image: Eric Wahlforss / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0

Boverket's new method identifies 167 Swedish areas with “major exclusion problems”. Sixty-six are placed in the most severe group, and about 660,000 people live across the full set.

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