School libraries in Malmö
Official school library statistics for 2025 from the National Library of Sweden (KB) for Malmö municipality. The figures describe the municipality as a whole, not individual schools.
School libraries and staffing
- School libraries on school units
- 126
- Of which with any reported staffing
- 123
- Staff hours per school library per week
- 30
- Sweden: 16.4
- Integrated public and school libraries
- 1
Staff hours per school library per week: 24.7 in 2024 and 30 in 2025. Only staff hours can be compared between years, and then with KB's revised 2024 figures.
Pupils' access
- Pupils with a school library on their own or another school unit
- 98.7%
- Sweden: 87.6%
- Pupils whose school library has any form of staffing
- 97.1%
- Sweden: 81.9%
- Pupils whose integrated public and school library has any form of staffing
- 0.9%
Arrangements at school units
- School units with a library on their own school grounds
- 156
- School units with other arrangements
- 2
Collections
- Physical copies per school library
- 6,124
- Sweden: 5,046
- Physical titles per school library
- 4,326
- Sweden: 3,758
About the statistics
- The figures describe Malmö municipality as a whole, not individual schools.
- Statistics year 2025. KB's current survey was first carried out in 2025, with reference year 2024. Staffing was measured differently in 2024; only total staffing can be compared between years, using KB's revised figures.
- Collections: about a quarter of libraries did not answer KB's collection survey, and KB does not adjust for it. The average may rest on few libraries.
- "Any form of staffing" says nothing about how many hours the library is staffed.
Source: National Library of Sweden — official school library statistics