What is on the Swedish citizenship test

The medborgarskapsprov (the knowledge test you take to become a Swedish citizen) is now part of the path to citizenship for many people. This article is about the test itself: what it looks like, what it covers and where the questions come from.

It is a written test about Swedish society. It is not a language test and not an interview. You sit it on paper, in Swedish.

Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR, the Swedish Council for Higher Education) says on its page about the test day that the test has 60 questions. On its other pages, UHR says roughly 60.

The test on 15 August 2026 was an utprövningsprov, a trial run. That means the questions were used in a real test for the first time. UHR writes that generous time is to be given at a sitting like that.

What the test covers

UHR writes and runs the test. It covers samhällskunskap, meaning basic knowledge about Swedish society.

Section 2 of förordning (2026:451) om medborgarskapsprov (a rule the government decides on its own) lists the subjects that count. It names eleven areas, but the förordning says they are only examples.

• Historical events that have shaped Sweden.
• What traditions mean for Swedish society.
• The Swedish welfare state.
• The labour market, working life and personal finances.
• What the climate and the environment mean for Swedish society.
• How Sweden is governed as a democracy, the constitutional laws and the legal system.
• Freedoms and rights, including equality, gender equality and the rights of the child.
• World religions, other beliefs about life, and what freedom of religion means for Swedish society.
• The role of the media in Swedish society.
• Sweden's geography and geopolitics, meaning its place in the world and among its neighbouring countries.
• Broad knowledge of the EU and other important international partnerships, meaning the main points rather than the details.

The list gives examples, not a finished syllabus. So the test can cover other things that count as basic knowledge about society.

Where the questions come from: Sverige i fokus

UHR's study material is called Sverige i fokus. In the material, UHR writes that the test will be based on it. The material was produced by UHR together with Skolverket (the Swedish National Agency for Education), at the government's request.

You can download the material from uhr.se without paying, as a PDF and as audio files. We explain it on our Sverige i fokus page.

UHR published a corrected version of Sverige i fokus on 10 August 2026. A date on page 39 was wrong: the UN was founded in 1945, not 1946. A caption on page 43 was wrong too: Sweden has about 1 400 preserved churches and church ruins of medieval origin, not 3 000.

UHR writes that the test result of anyone who read the earlier version is not affected. According to the same page about the study material, two of the audio chapters were updated on 11 August 2026.

The safest way to study is UHR's own material. Read it in Swedish, because the test is in Swedish. Other courses and apps can help you go over it, but they do not replace the source.

UHR's five example questions

UHR has published five examples of how the test questions may be written. Each question has four options, and one is correct. They are examples, not real test questions and not a practice test.

• What the main task of the public sector is.
• What title Sweden's head of state holds.
• A Swedish natural resource that has long had great economic importance.
• Which country belonged to Sweden for almost 700 years, until 1809.
• How freedom of expression works for a critical post on social media.

Practice tests online

UHR does not publish a practice test. UHR writes that it has nothing to do with the practice tests you find online, and that their quality is not checked by UHR or by any other authority.

UHR has not published the test questions. So if someone sells what they say are the real questions, those questions did not come from UHR.

What the test costs

The test on 15 August 2026 was free. For tests held from 2027 onwards there is a fee, and it is the government that sets it, not UHR. Under section 6 of the same förordning, the person who takes the test pays 2 000 kronor to UHR.

The fee applies for the first time to tests held in 2027. It does not apply to you if you are stateless and have been granted flyktingstatus (refugee status) or a resedokument from a Swedish authority. A resedokument is a special travel document for refugees and stateless people.

The pass mark: not published yet

UHR has not published a pass mark. So we do not know how many correct answers are needed. UHR says the result will be published during the autumn.

Numbers about the pass mark that circulate on other sites do not come from UHR. We explain what the knowledge requirement means on our requirements and grading page. When UHR publishes a pass mark, we will update this article.

Whether you need to take the test at all is for Migrationsverket (the Swedish Migration Agency, which decides on citizenship) to decide in your case. Migrationsverket also decides whether any exemption applies for your age or your situation.