- Public culture expenditure, all levels of government, per capita in 2024: 3 293 SEK, 288 EUR.
- Public culture expenditure, all levels of government, in millions in 2024: 34 861SEK, 3 050 EUR.
- Public culture expenditure in percentage of GDP, in 2024: 0.54 per cent.
- Public culture expenditure as a percentage of total public expenditure in 2024: 1.1 per cent.
There has been a noticeable trend of regional governments increasing their share of total government spending on culture while the municipal part is decreasing. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the national budgets for arts and culture increased further in the last two years. The national budget for 2024 (prop. 2023/24:1) is noticeably more restrained and will mean a removal of many of the increases implemented during the pandemic, as well as more severe cuts in some cases, noticeably with regard to funding for study associations (studieförbund, see 6.4).
Of the 17.4 billion SEK national government expenditure on culture, media, religious denominations, and leisure (as defined in the national budget) budgeted for 2026, 1.5 billion SEK went to popular study associations, 2.5 billion SEK to folk high schools, 1.7 billion SEK to regional cultural activities, 1.9 billion SEK to national museums and 800 million SEK to the national opera and theatre. Public spending on culture varies a great deal between different parts of the country, both because different municipalities and regional governments spend different amounts and because the national government’s cultural budget is spent unevenly in relation to different parts of the country. Priorities within cultural policy may also differ between different levels of government.
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