# List of disasters in Sweden by death toll

This is a list of disasters and tragic events in modern Sweden sorted by death toll.

## 100 or more

| Disaster | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
| Pandemic | Sweden-wide | 225,000–500,000 | 1350 | The Black Death's first wave in Sweden killed 30-40% to two-thirds of the then Swedish population. |
| Famine | Sweden-wide | 100,000 | 1770s | Famine due to crop failure. |
| Pandemic | Sweden-wide | 37,573 (probably more) | 1918–1920 | In Sweden, 37,573 people died from the Spanish flu pandemic according to official statistics. |
| Pandemic | Sweden-wide | 37,000 | 1834–1874 | Between 1834 and 1874, 37,000 people died in Sweden of cholera. |
| Pandemic | Sweden-wide | 23,563 | 2020, January 24 – present | The COVID-19 pandemic is reported to have killed 23,563 people in Sweden as of February 11, 2023 |
| Famine | Sweden-wide | 10,000 | 1867–1869 | During the famine of 1867–69 which hit Finland and northern Sweden, poor harvests and uneven distribution of food led to the poor population, mainly in the North, died in their thousands. |
| Snowstorm | Öjfjället | 3,000+ | 1718 | During a disastrous retreat from Tydalsfjällen by a Swedish Carolean army around New Year 1719, about 3,000 men froze to death. |
| Massacre | Ronneby | 2,000 | 1564, September 4 | Up to 2,000 people (men, women and children) were killed in Ronneby Bloodbath when Swedish troops entered Ronneby and executed people after a couple of Swedish soldiers have been assaulted and hanged there for a time before. |
| Sea battle | near Öland | 810 | 1676, June 1 | The warship Kronan was sunk during the battle of Öland. The sinking was caused by the ship capsized in a too sharp turn. During the capsizing, the gunpowder storeroom ignited and the main part of the bow was blown away on the starboard side. |
| Sea battle | near Öland | 700 | 1676, June 1 | The warship Svärdet was sunk during the battle of Öland after being ignited by a Dutch fire ship. |
| Sea battle | near Öland | 500 | 1564, May 31 | The warship Mars was sunk during the first battle of Öland after gunpowder storeroom was ignited. A total of 800 men, of which 300 were enemy crews, died in the ensuing explosion. |
| Execution | Stockholm | circa 100 | 1520, November 8–9 | During Stockholm Bloodbath, approximately 100 Swedes were executed in Stortorget, Gamla stan in conjunction with Christian II's coronation as Swedish king. |
| Snowstorm | Götaland and Svealand | >100 | 1850, January 29 | A sudden and very intense snowstorms caused roughly a hundred deaths, mainly in northeastern Götaland and Svealand. The incident is called The Blizzard Tuesday Yrväderstisdagen. |

## 50 to 99 deaths

| Disaster | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
| Shipwreck | Baltic Sea | 84 | 1944, November 24 | Hansa was hit by a Russian torpedo and sank about 44 kilometers north of Visby. Of the 86 people on board, 84 perished. |
| Murder | Käpplingen | 70 | 1392, June 17 | Seventy Swedes were incarcerated in a barn after which the building was set on fire. |
| Fire | Gothenburg | 63 | 1998, October 30 | In the Gothenburg discothèque fire, 63 people died and about 214 were injured. |

## 10 to 49 deaths

| Disaster | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
| Shipwreck | Armasjärvi | 46 | 1940, October 24 | The accident occurred on Lake Armasjärvi when a ferry sank and 46 men were killed. |
| Fire | Tidaholm | 44–46 | 1875, February 25 | Vulcan Match Plant in Tidaholm catches fire where 44 or 46 people are reported to have been killed; almost all girls between 18 and 20 years. |
| Shipwreck | Kattegat | 33 | 1943, April 16 | The submarine HSwMS Ulven, during a training mission, hit a German naval mine off Gothenburg and 33 men were killed. |
| Explosion | Hårsfjärden | 33 | 1941, September 17 | A powerful explosion occurred in Hårsfjärden where the destroyer Klas Uggla, Klas Horn and Göteborg were destroyed. |
| Air disaster | Ängelholm | 31 | 1964, November 20 | Linjeflyg Flight 277 crashed during approach to Ängelholm Airport. 31 people died. |
| Shipwreck | Beckholmen | 30 | 1628, August 10 | The warship Vasa sank on her maiden voyage after capsizing. The water began to gush in through the open gun hatches and the ship sank. At least 30 men were killed, but perhaps as many as 50. |
| Murder | Malmö | 27 | 1978–79 | A 18-year-old worker poisoned the elderly in Malmö Östra Hospital with corrosive cleaning agents Gevisol and Ivisol. 27 patients were affected in what has been known as Malmö Östra hospital murders. |
| Shipwreck | Lilla Bommen | 26 | 1908, April 15 | The steamship Göta Elf capsized almost immediately after leaving the dock. 26 people died. |
| Shipwreck | Stora Hammarsundet | 25 | 1828, April 28 | A heavily laden ferry departed on his way home from the traditional spring market in Askersund. When the ferry reached halfway a line burst and an ox fell into the water. Several people hurried to try to pull up the animal. Oblique load meant that the ferry capsized and sank. 25 people drowned. |
| Shipwreck | Vättern | 24 | 1918, November 19–20 | The passenger ship Per Brahe sank in a storm on Lake Vättern outside Hästholmen, probably caused by the cargo had shifted. All on board were killed, including artist John Bauer and his family. |
| Air disaster | Kälvesta | 22 | 1977, January 15 | Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashed in a parking lot at Ängsullsvägen in Kälvesta in western Stockholm during an approach to Bromma Airport. 22 people were killed, including table tennis world champion Hans Alsér. |
| Fire | Börstil Parish | 22 | 1882, May 31 | A fire in Börstil poorhouse on the night of 31 May 1882 in Börstil Parish outside Östhammar after being struck by lightning and the building was ignited. 22 people died. |
| Shipwreck | Kattegatt | 21 | 1935, November 2 | The steamship Gerd collided with the Åland barque Lingard, the entire crew of the Gerd perished. |
| Fire | Borås | 20 | 1978, June 10 | The city hotel catches fire during a graduation party. 20 people died in the fire and some 50 were injured. |
| Explosion | Vaxholm | 19 | 1887, August 11 | In connection with gunpowder handling at Vaxholm Fortress, a large explosion occurred which killed 19 gunners, 16 from Svea Artillery Regiment and three from Göta Artillery Regiment. |
| Shipwreck | Eggegrund | 17 | 1954, January 19 | The steamship Nedjan av Simrishamn was lost on 19 January 1954 in the Eggegrund area, where 17 people perished. |
| Air disaster | Oskarshamn | 16 | 1989, May 8 | 16 people, including several members of parliament, were killed when a domestic flight crashed shortly before landing. |
| Shipwreck | Varpen | 15 | 22 August 1896 | The steamboat Ydale sank on Lake Varpen in Bollnäs Municipality. 13 children and two adults drowned. |
| Shipwreck | Baltic Sea | 15 | 17 December 1956 | Höken of Gothenburg disappeared, possibly after hitting a naval mine, while traveling from Klaipėda, Lithuania to Gävle. The ship had 15 crew. |
| Shipwreck | Baltic Sea | 14 | 29 October 1944 | The steamboat Bengt Sture was sunk by the Soviet submarine SC 406. 14 Swedes and one Norwegian disappeared. The submarine picked up seven Swedish crewmen. According to a Russian historian, they were shot by the NKVD security police in a prison camp, something that has not been officially confirmed by the Russians. |
| Shipwreck | Dorotea Municipality | 14 | 12 May 1936 | In connection with log driving, an overloaded boat capsized into the cold water and 14 people drowned. |
| Explosion | Palovaara | 14 | 3 July 1944 | Fourteen servicemen were killed when tank mines exploded at Palovaara, just west of Haparanda. |
| Air disaster | Hållö | 13 | 22 October 1943 | 13 people were killed when Swedish AB Aerotransport's DC3 "Gripen" was shot down by German fighters at Hållö outside the coast of Bohuslän. |
| Tram accident | Gothenburg | 13 | 12 March 1992 | A powerless tram rolled backwards down Aschebergsgatan in Gothenburg without being able to brake. It derailed at Vasaplatsen and hit the waiting people at a stop. 13 people died and 29 were injured. |
| Fire | Svärdsjö | 12 | 29 February 1932 | Twelve elderly people were killed in a fire at a retirement home in Svärdsjö. |
| Shipwreck | Bössviken | 11 | 23 July 1896 | The boat Freja af Fryken sank in at Bössviken, Östra Ämtervik. Eleven people drowned. |
| Shipwreck | Böttö | 11 | 29 August 1950 | The tugboat Barbara rolled over and sank in bad weather at Böttö in the Archipelago of Gothenburg. 11 people were killed. |
| Fire | Rödebyholm | 11 | 27 March 1944 | Rödebyholm orphanage was destroyed by fire and eleven children aged three to eight years died. |
| Explosion | Björkborn | 11 | 17 December 1940 | An explosion occurred at AB Bofors Nobelkrut in Björkborn, Karlskoga Municipality after a fire started in the TNT casting foundry. 11 people were killed and around 100 buildings were completely destroyed and as many were damaged in an area of about 15 hectares. |
| Air disaster | Karlstad | 10 | 23 September 1950 | Svenska Aero's plane on its way to Stockholm had just taken off from Karlstad Airport when it reared up and fell to the ground. All ten on board were killed. |
| Air disaster | Huvudskär | 10 | 6 September 1968 | A Hkp 4 crashed at Huvudskär in the Stockholm archipelago when a rotor blade snapped. Ten people were killed. |
| Murder | Skåne | 9+1 | 29 April 1939 | The police officer Tore Hedin killed a man in the village of Tjörnarp. A year later, during a nighttime murder tour he killed another nine people before drowning himself in Lake Bosarpa. |
| Shipwreck | Vållö | 10 | 29 April 1939 | 10 men from the torpedo cruiser Jacob Bagge drowned at Vållö when an overcrowded boat capsized. |
| Shipwreck | off Bergkvara | 10 | 26 July 1925 | Off Bergkvara in southern Kalmarsund, a group of ten young people aged 14–21 years drowned during a sailing trip from Garpen lighthouse to Bergkvara harbor. The boat was surprised by a gust and was overturned, with all ten ended up in the water and drowned. |
| Explosion | Baltic Sea | 10 | 17 July 1940 | During an exercise west of Gotland, one of the boilers in fire room number four exploded on the coastal defence ship HSwMS Gustav V. Eight men were killed immediately, and the two men on the deck and passed the boiler's air intake were severely injured. These were taken by a minesweeper to Visby Hospital, where they later died. |
| Explosion | Ränneslätt | 10 | 6 March 1943 | An accident occurred during an exercise with explosives at Ränneslätt. 31 men were injured and ten died of the explosion. |
| Explosion | Gräsgård | 10 | 22 November 1941 | Ten men were killed on Hjvb 282 Libanon when a naval mine exploded outside Gräsgård in Öland. A defused mine was lifted on board one of the boats, but had not noticed that a second mine was hanging on. |
| Explosion | Västervik | 10 | 6 May 1918 | Ten men were killed in a naval mine blast at the glass factory in Västervik after a fisherman found the mine floating in the water 400–500 meters outside Cape Gränsö and brought it to shore. |

## Significant incidents resulting in fewer than 10 deaths

| Disaster | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
| Air disaster | Umeå | 9 | 14 July 2019 | 9 people were killed in the Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash. |
| Explosion | Järflotta | 9 | 18 August 1948 | An accident occurred at the second artillery piece in which nine people died. It was at a technical shooting when the pendulum pressure arose, probably due to great of a charge that blew up the mechanism and the artillery piece's rear parts. |
| Explosion | off Lysekil | 8 | 12 October 1944 | Eight men were killed when the patrol boat Hjvb 256 Condor hit a naval mine off Lysekil. |
| Shipwreck | Lower Vättern | 8 | 28 August 1961 | In conjunction with a major fishing competition on Lake Lower Vättern in Skinnskatteberg, a small boat capsized in heavy weather and eight people drowned. |
| Explosion | Gyttorp | 8 | 29 October 1964 | Eight men died and 21 have to be taken to hospital after a double explosion in the explosives factory Nitroglycerin AB. |
| Air disaster | Lunde | 8 | 9 December 1999 | Eight people were killed when a two-engine Piper PA-31 Navajo propeller plane crashed shortly after 12:00 after take-off from Midlanda Airport. |
| Shipwreck | Hävringe | 7 | 24 March 1944 | The patrol boat Hjvb 232 Isbjörn capsized and sank in a storm on the road to Hävringe lighthouse. The pilot boat from Hävringe went out to the site and was able to save three of the ten occupants. |
| Murder | Falun | 7 | 11 June 1994 | Mattias Flink shot and killed five women and two men in Falun. |
| Fire | Rinkeby | 7 | 25 July 2009 | Shortly after 10.00 pm on 25 July 2009, a fire destroyed an apartment on the ground floor of Kuddbygränd in Rinkeby. A mother and her five daughters were killed immediately. Later a relative of the family died in the hospital. The fire had started in a lamp. |
| Fire | Stockholm | 7 | March 1975 | Seven patients were killed and 15 injured in a fire at S:t Eriks Hospital in Stockholm. |
| Lightning | Hamneda | 7 | 1 July 1895 | The lightning struck in a barn and killed seven people. |
| Explosion | Grundfors | 7 | 14 March 1956 | During work in an open lowering channel, an explosion occurred at the building of Grundfors Power Station, killing seven people and injuring three. |
| Fire | Eksjö | 6 | February 1954 | Six people died in a fire at a retirement home in Eksjö. |
| Explosion | Karlberg Palace | 6 | 29 July 1942 | The Reserve Officer Course practiced mine-laying and demining at Karlberg Palace when some mines were triggered. Six cadets from Bohuslän Regiment died. |
| Explosion | Grängesberg | 6 | 27 May 1926 | At AB Expressdynamit's facilities in Grängesberg a building exploded and the six people inside, six workers, were killed. The accident was considered to be caused by a metal that accidentally came with the pressing of a dynamite mass of 160 kg, wherein by the heat of friction generated, the dynamite was ignited. |
| Explosion | Gothenburg | 6 | 3 April 1943 | During work on a naval mine in a shed building within the mine workshop at Nya Varvet in Gothenburg, six men were killed. |
| Explosion | Gothenburg archipelago | 6 | 13 December 1939 | Six men were killed aboard the coastal defence ship HSwMS Manligheten in the Gothenburg archipelago during the salvage of a German paravane. Another 14 men received varying injuries. |
| Gas leak | Borlänge | 5 | 6 April 1953 | Five men in the hot blast cabin at Domnarvet Iron Works were killed when toxic gas leaked in after a leak in a water trap. |
| Terrorism | Stockholm | 5 | 7 April 2017 | 2017 Stockholm truck attack. An Uzbek asylum seeker hijacked a truck and deliberately drove it into crowds of people in central Stockholm killing 5 and seriously wounding 14. |
| Explosion | Perstorp | 5 | 29 May 1954 | Five people were killed when a two-story building belonging to Skånska vinegar factory in Perstorp exploded. In the building there were machines for grinding down wood for use in plastic pulp. |
| Explosion | Luleå | 5 | 3 March 1940 | Five people (including two children) died in an arson attack when an explosive charge placed in the printing press of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman exploded. |
| Explosion | Heleneborg | 5 | 3 September 1864 | Five people died when the Nobel family's factory for the production of nitroglycerin exploded, including Alfred Nobel's brother Emil Oskar Nobel. The accident was a major incentive for Alfred Nobel's development of explosive dynamite. |
| Murder | Mälaren | 5 | 17 May 1900 | The 25-year-old John Filip Nordlund robbed and murdered five people on the steamer Prins Carl. |
| Murder | Stockholm, Uppsala | 5 | 7 March 1932 | In the Von Sydow murders, the 23-year-old law student Fredrik von Sydow kills his father Hjalmar von Sydow in Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm and two of his father's maidservants. Later that evening in Uppsala, he shoot his young wife and then himself. |
| Fire | Sundsvall | 5 | 25 October 1982 | Five people are killed in a fire at Sundsvall nursing home. |
| Fire | Sundsvall | 5 | 25 June 1888 | Five people are killed and 9,000 become homeless when the city of Sundsvall burns down. |
| Fire | Malmköping | 5 | June 1971 | Five people are killed in a fire in a rehabilitation ward in Malmköping. |
| Fire | Staffanstorp | 5 | 2 September 2009 | Four children and a 27-year-old woman died in a house fire in Staffanstorp. According to the Swedish National Forensics Centre, the fire was probably caused by an overheated battery in a laptop lying on a sofa. |
| Murder | Uppsala | 5 | 8 April 1966 | A theologian in Uppsala murdered his wife and four children with an ax. |
| Murder | Hörja | 4 | 31 March 1900 | Teacher Frans Oscar Bergstrand poisoned four of his children and then took his own life. |
| Murder | Östersund | 4 | 21 January 1954 | 50-year-old taxi owner Valdemar Näslund murdered his wife and three children with an ax in his apartment in Östersund. The motive was that he embezzled money from a taxi owner's cash register. |
| Murder | Stockholm | 4 | 4 December 1994 | Tommy Zethraeus shot dead four and injured six people outside the entrance to the nightclub Sturecompagniet in Stockholm after having been in disarray with the nightclub bouncers earlier in the evening. |
| Murder | Söderhamn | 4 | 1 March 1971 | The 61-year-old Gunnar Bengtsson shot four people dead during a preparatory hearing in a dispute in Söderhamn Courthouse [sv] in Söderhamn. |
| Murder | Östra Broby | 4 | 12 January 1886 | Nils Peter Hagström murdered during the night between 11 and 12 January 1886 four people at Gliminge Gård in Östra Broby. |
| Murder | Brandbergen | 4 | 8 September 1980 | A 22-year-old kills three men and a woman in an apartment on Jungfruns gata in Brandbergen, Stockholm. |
| Murder | Bällsta | 4 | 4 November 1945 | Repairman John Lundvall from Bällsta murdered his wife and three children with an ax. |
| Fire | Stockholm | 4 | 15 March 1977 | Four people were killed in a fire at the restaurant and nightclub Monte Carlo on Sveavägen in Stockholm. Around 200 people were in the room. |
| Explosion | Västgöta Wing | 4 | 30 May 1940 | Five men were killed when a weapons storage room, which adjoined a hangar at Västgöta Wing (F 6) in Karlsborg, exploded. |
| Explosion | Stockholm archipelago | 4 | 29 May 1949 | Four men were killed in an explosion in a battery room on the coastal submarine HSwMS U4 in Solofjärden at Oskar-Fredriksborg fortress. |
| Shipwreck | Hunnebostrand | 3 | March 1945 | The patrol boat Hjvb 383 Ocean was towing two German motor boats outside Hunnebostrand. A hawser broke and three men drowned when a motor boats drifted onto a skerry. |
| Murder | Handen | 3 | 9 January 1967 | 28-year-old Leif Peters shot dead two police officers and a security guard in Handen, Stockholm. |
| Murder | Vattnäs | 3 | 24 December 1975 | A non-commissioned officer shot dead his fiancée and her parents and injured the fiancée's daughter with his service pistol. |
| Murder | Åmsele | 3 | 3 July 1988 | Juha Valjakkala shot a man, his son and later also his wife at the cemetery in Åmsele after being caught having stolen their bicycle. |
| Murder | Härnösand | 3 | 11 May 2010 | A 49-year-old man and his two children, a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were murdered in their home by 21-year-old Ragnar Nilsson who was half-brother with the two children. |
| Murder | Sorunda | 3 | 2 January 1956 | Count Gustaf-Fredrik von Rosen shot his wife and two children and then shot himself. |
| Explosion | Off Nynäshamn | 3 | 28 October 1948 | An explosion on the cruiser HSwMS Gotland killed three men and ten were injured. |
| Explosion | Moheda | 3 | 23 July 1958 | At the Army's distribution center for fuel an explosion occurred that claimed three people's lives of a total of eleven people who worked at the facility. |
| Explosion | Björkborn | 3 | 29 April 1941 | A gas explosion occurred in one of the buildings of the new TNT factory in Björkborn. Three workers were killed. |
| Fire | off Lysekil | 3 | 7 April 1990 | 159 people are killed, including three Swedes in a fire on the ferry MS Scandinavian Star, on its way from Oslo to Frederikshavn. |
| Fire | Gothenburg | 3 | 9 August 1931 | Three firefighters were killed in a major fire at Hanssons Pyrotechnics (Hanssons Pyrotekniska). |
| Explosion | Basareholmen | 2 | 1949 | A blasting accident during the mixing of a primer occurred where two people died. |
| Shipwreck | Vindö | 2 | 13 June 2004 | Close to Sollenkroka on Vindö, after completion of an exercise and on the way to the base at Vaxholm Amphibian Regiment (Amf 1) at Rindö, a CB90-class fast assault craft ran into another assault craft and two servicemen were killed. |

## Significant incidents of Swedes being killed overseas

Excludes deaths attributable to war.
| Disaster | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
| Terrorism | Belgium | 3 | 16 October 2023 | Two Swedish men were killed and one was injured in the 2023 Brussels shooting when the 45-year old Abdesalem Lassoued opened fire on Swedish football supporters who were on their way to a football match in the King Baudouin Stadium during the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers. The victims were 60-year-old Patrick Lundström and 70-year-old Kent Persson. Another man in his 70s was injured. |
| Tsunami | Thailand | 543 | 26 December 2004 | The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami caused the deaths of 227,898 people, 543 of whom were Swedish. |
| Shipwreck | Baltic Sea | 501 | 28 September 1994 | The sinking of the MS Estonia in bad weather during its journey from Tallinn to Stockholm with 989 people on board resulted in the death of 852 people. Of 552 Swedes on board, 501 died. |
| Shipwreck | West Indies | 117 | 30 April 1846 | The corvette Carlskrona lost in the West Indies and 117 people were killed. |
| Shipwreck | Atlantic Ocean | 89 | 15 April 1912 | RMS Titanic steamed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England towards New York City, United States and hit an iceberg and damaged its hull. She sankt within three hours. 1,517 people died. 123 Swedes were on board – 89 of them died. |
| Air disaster | Madrid–Barajas Airport, Spain | 22 | 27 November 1983 | Early on the morning of Sunday, 27 November 1983, Avianca Flight 011 crashed on approach to Madrid–Barajas Airport. On board were 192 people. 11 people survived the crash. Among those killed were 27 Scandinavians, thereof 22 Swedes. Most Scandinavian citizens were young people on their way to South America to bring home adopted children. |
| Shipwreck | North Sea | 22 | 2 February 1953 | During the North Sea flood of 1953, Aspö of Stockholm was reported missing on 2 February after getting the deck load flushed overboard and a leaking in the front of the ship. Aspö disappeared without a trace with 22 crew. |
| Air disaster | west of Salerno, Italy | 21 | 18 November 1947 | A transport aircraft of the type Bristol 170 Freighter had been chartered by the Swedish Air Force to carry home 21 flight officers and flight engineers, who had supplied bombers sold to the Ethiopian government. On a stage from Catania to Rome, the plane came for unknown reason off course and crashed against Monte Carro. On board were 21 passengers in addition to the three members of the crew. The accident killed 21 people, including one who survived the impact but died later from his injuries. |
| Fire | Rhodes, Greece | 20 | 23 September 1972 | 32 Scandinavians, of which 20 Swedish tourists, died in a restaurant fire. |
| Air disaster | 2001 Linate Airport runway collision, Italy | 20 | 8 October 2001 | The Linate Airport disaster occurred when a SAS McDonnell Douglas MD-87 would take-off from Linate Airport but collided with a German-registered Cessna aircraft with four people on board. 114 people on board the SAS plane, including 20 Swedes, were killed along with four people in a baggage handling building that was hit by the SAS plane. |
| Air disaster | Kalba, United Arab Emirates | 20 | 14 March 1972 | Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed during a flight from Colombo, Sri Lanka to Copenhagen, Denmark, with a stopover in Dubai. After two hours' flight, the plane crashed into a mountain ridge at about 550 meters. All 112 on board were killed, including 20 Swedes. |
| Fire | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17 | 9 May 1977 | 17 Swedes died in a fire at the Hotel Polen. Another 18 people were killed. |
| Air disaster | Northwood, United Kingdom | 16 | 4 July 1948 | 16 Swedes, including 7 crew were killed in the 1948 Northwood mid-air collision. |
| Bus accident | Måbødalen, Norway | 16 | 15 August 1988 | Måbødalen bus accident occurred when a bus with children and parents from Kvarnbacka School in Kista crashed against a rock wall in Måbødalen, 180 km from Bergen. 16 people died, including 12 children, and 19 were injured. |
| Shipwreck | German Bight, Germany | 15 | 22 June 1950 | The Viking ship Ormen Friske, a modern copy of the Gokstad ship was wrecked in a midsummer storm in 1950. All on board were killed. |
| Bus accident | Obertauern, Austria | 12 | 2 March 1965 | 12 Swedish schoolchildren and 2 Finnish girls on a winter sports holiday were killed when the bus they were traveling in was swept away in an avalanche. |
| Shipwreck | North Sea | 11 | 8 March 1952 | Rossö of Härnösand was lost on the Scottish coast with a crew of 22 men, 11 of whom were Swedes. |
| Shipwreck | South China Sea | 8 | 8 January 1953 | The Swedish tanker Avanti was steaming from New Guinea to Iwakuni in southern Japan when it was split in two parts in the South China Sea. 32 people were rescued and 8 died. |
| Shipwreck | Cape Arcona, Germany | 7 | 14 January 1993 | MS Jan Heweliusz sank in high winds on the night of 14 January 1993, on her way from Świnoujście to Ystad. A total of 55 people died, including seven Swedes. |
| Air disaster | Istanbul, Turkey | 6 | 19 January 1960 | Scandinavian Airlines Flight 871 from Copenhagen on the approach towards Ankara in Turkey crashed and 42 people died, including six Swedes. |
| Terrorism | Bali, Indonesia | 6 | 12 October 2002 | 2002 Bali bombings occurred in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people, including 6 Swedes. |
| Ship fire | English Channel | 6 | 9 June 1955 | The 16,000 ton MT Johannishus of Trelleborg collided with a Pananma-registered ship in the English Channel and caught fire. Eighteen crewmen, including six Swedes, were killed in the fire. |
| Ship fire | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 5 | 6 March 1953 | Svenska Orient Linien's Sunnanland caught fire in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil were five Swedes were killed. |
| Shipwreck | Atlantic Ocean | 5 | 25 July 1956 | MS Stockholm and SS Andrea Doria collided in fog. A total of 52 people were killed, of which 5 were Swedes who belonged to the crew of Stockholm. |
| Fire | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | 4 | 18 March 1988 | Five people, including four Swedes, died in a hotel fire in Palma de Mallorca. |
| Air disaster | Los Angeles, United States | 4 | 13 January 1969 | Scandinavian Airlines Flight 933 crashed into Santa Monica Bay, approximately 6 nautical miles (11 km) west of Los Angeles International Airport. 15 people died, including four Swedes. |
| Air disaster | Kastrup Airport, Denmark | 4 | 26 January 1947 | 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 Copenhagen accident was the crash of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Copenhagen to Stockholm on 26 January 1947. |
| Traffic accident | Phuket, Thailand | 4 | 3 February 2012 | Four Swedish youths died when they were on the road in minibus between Patong in Phuket and Koh Tao in Thailand and collided with a truck that came over on the wrong side of the road. |
| Terrorism | Lockerbie, Scotland | 3 | 21 December 1988 | A bomb explodes aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie. 270 people died, including the three Swedes Bernt Carlsson, Siv Ulla Engström and Elisabeth Svensson-Mulroy. |
| Terrorism | Brussels, Belgium | 2 | 22 March 2016 | The 2016 Brussels bombings was three coordinated nail bombings that occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek/Maelbeek metro station in Brussels. Two Swedish women died in the attacks. |
| Terrorism | New York City, United States | 1 | 11 September 2001 | The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against civilians and military buildings. One Swede, who worked in one of the Twin Towers, was killed. |
| Terrorism | Paris, France | 1 | 13 November 2015 | The November 2015 Paris attacks was a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris. One Swede was killed in the attacks. |