Access Sweden's official library statistics. Here you will find information on collections, loans, visits, and personnel.

Preliminary and Final Statistics

Publicly funded libraries that are staffed at least half-time are surveyed annually about their activities in the previous year.

As soon as the first responses are submitted starting in January, preliminary statistics are published continuously for each responding library organization respectively. You can access these responses in the library statistics database. The data is also available as open linked data via KB's APIs.

The latest library statistics

Here you will find the latest library statistics from 2023. They are sorted by library type at the municipal, regional, and national levels.