Conscription in Sweden

[2] Mandatory conscription was re-activated by the then Social democratic government in 2017, which cited increased threats to national security.

[2] The Swedish Armed Forces planned to call 4,000 recruits annually for basic military training in 2018 and 2019.

[2] 85% of those called up were men; the percentage of female conscripts was gradually increased over the following years, reaching 20% in 2022 and 24% in 2023.

[2][5][6] The conscripts were chosen from a pool of approximately 13,000 young people born in 1999 to serve for 12 months.

[7] In early 2019, after fines had been received by dozens of young people for draft evasion, the first jail sentences since the return of conscription were handed out to those refusing to carry out their military service.