Conscripts account for more than 60% of all reported injuries in the Swedish Armed Forces, despite representing just 10% of serving personnel, according to new figures reported by Officerstidningen on November 3. The military registered 3,257 occupational injury reports in 2025, with approximately 500 additional reports expected due to reporting delays, bringing the projected total to around 3,700. The proportion of injuries involving conscripts has remained relatively stable in recent years, although an increase was observed among female conscripts. Sweden’s Surgeon General, Claes Ivgren, highlighted a rise in stress fractures among women, including cases in which prolonged physical strain caused bones to fracture spontaneously.

The report also exposed persistent failures in the Armed Forces’ injury monitoring system. Since reporting was transferred to the Prio administrative system in 2015, the military has struggled with underreporting, incorrect classification and inadequate analysis. The latest annual report, published several months late, contains almost no information about injury types, circumstances, locations or the characteristics of injured personnel. Another 129 serious injuries and dangerous incidents, including two fatalities, were reported separately to the Swedish Work Environment Authority in 2025 and are excluded from the military’s injury statistics.

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