2016 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch - Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime minister - Stefan Löfven

  Events

• 2016 Sweden riots

  Television

• 2016 in Swedish television

  Sport

• Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Sweden at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• 20 to 27 August - the 2016 World Orienteering Championships were held in Strömstad and Tanum.

  Music

• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

  Crime

• 2016 Sweden terrorism plot
• Killing of Alexandra Mezher
• 2016 social unrest in Sweden

  Births

• March 2 - Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne

  Deaths

January

• January 11 - Gunnel Vallquist
• January 17
• * Carina Jaarnek
• * Kjell Alinge
• January 25 - Alexandra Mezher
• January 30 - Calle Wisborg

  February

• February 5 - Bodil Malmsten
• February 29 - Josefin Nilsson
• July 23 - Thorbjörn Fälldin