SwedenWhen the Encampments Reached Lund
A tent camp opened in Lundagård on May 14, 2024, prompting a university response.
SwedenSweden
SwedenStockholm’s Campus Protest Reached the President’s Office
A petition and a later meeting brought activists’ demands to university leadership.
Crime & Law
Malmö · How Malmö policed Eurovision week
Swedish police brought in officers from across the country and received help from Denmark and Norway for Eurovision in Malmö in May 2024.
Public costs and population trends
The country coverage below includes only costs and disruptions documented in its sources. A verified nationwide total for policing Gaza-related demonstrations or repairing associated damage is unavailable in the records assembled here.
Documented effects beyond campus
Cost figures retain their original geography and reporting period. An evidence gap here is not a reported zero.
Evidence review · November 15, 2026. Additional source evidence is linked in the relevant rows.
| Area | What the sources establish |
|---|---|
| Policing and dispersal | The Swedish Police Authority describes nationwide and cross-border staffing for Malmö’s 2024 Eurovision operation, during which Gaza-related demonstrations also took place. The police account covers overall event security and does not allocate spending to individual protests. Swedish Police regional report |
| Property damage and repairs | No verified repair bill attributable to these protests appears in the sources reviewed for this profile. |
| Businesses and economic activity | The coverage does not establish lost sales, insured losses or a nationwide business impact. |
| Transport and access | The sources reviewed for this profile do not establish a protest-related closure or service-delay figure. |
Migration and religion
2,272,158 international migrants lived in Sweden at midyear 2024, according to UN DESA estimates. This is the resident migrant stock. The UN uses birthplace or citizenship depending on the source available for each country. UN DESA definitions · Country figures
20104.5%
20208.1%
Both bars use a 0–100% scale. Estimates describe the whole population. Pew Research Center dataset
These population measures have different denominators and dates. Neither identifies participants in a demonstration, and aggregating their counts cannot establish which people caused a disruption.