Education
Increasing numbers of Malmö residents have a higher education. At the same time, approximately one-third of job-seekers in Malmö lack an education beyond upper secondary school. The percentage of students who are eligible for upper secondary school has increased and the merit rating for students in the 9th grade has increased.
Post-secondary education in Malmö
Since the 2000s, Malmö has had a strong development in the proportion of highly educated. 48.6 percent of Malmö's population has at least 3 years of post-secondary education, an increase of 20.8 percent from the year 2000. The corresponding figure for the whole of Sweden is 15.5 percent
Merit rating in Malmö
The average grade point average in Malmö's municipal primary schools is 229.4, while the national average is 222.6. Stockholm has 247.8, and Gothenburg has 219.8.
Source: Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket).
Upper secondary eligibility in Malmö
81.2 percent of students in grade 9 were eligible for upper secondary school in the 2023/24 academic year, a decrease of 2.3 percentage points compared to the previous year.
Source: Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket).
Children in preschool
The chances of being able to take advantage of teaching in primary school are greater among those children who have attended a high-quality preschool. Preschool has the potential to promote social equalization and early investments in preschool yields a high payoff in terms of lifelong learning. For these reasons, it is therefore important that as many children as possible attend a high-quality preschool.
- The number of municipal preschools for 2025: 190
- The number of children in municipal preschools 2025 (refers to 1-5 years) was 18 887.
- The proportion of children in municipal preschools 2025 (refers to 1-5 years) was 83 percent.