14% of GDP and 826 kronor per inhabitant – the lowest levels in over 20 years, according to DIK's report. Sweden's culture funding is decreasing both as a share of GDP and in kronor per inhabitant. Sweden is in the bottom of the Nordic league in public culture funding, together with Finland.
3%. Denmark, which is often highlighted as a pioneering country when it comes to private funding, also invests more public funds than Sweden. Under the Tidö government, Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand has chosen to focus on increasing private funding.
However, Sweden lags behind the other Nordic countries also when it comes to private culture funding, according to DIK's report. Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand has not taken part of the report and therefore declines to comment. Sweden spends 218 kronor per person per month on public culture according to the DIK report.
It remains unclear what specific measures Liljestrand has taken to increase private culture funding or how the government justifies the decrease in public funding.