The Swedish Red List 2025

Dataset type

This dataset contains a list of species with an associated trait.

Description

The Swedish Red List is compiled by the Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as part of the environmental monitoring and assessment programme Biodiversity. It includes assessments of the extinction risk of species in Sweden. The Swedish Red List 2025 was published on 24 March 2026 and is the sixth Swedish Red List to use the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List categories and criteria.

This dataset includes all taxa that have been categorized as red-listed: Regionally Extinct (RE), Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT) and Data Deficient (DD). All red-listed taxa are included regardless of taxon rank, i.e. it includes for example subspecies and species aggregates. Note that the Swedish Red List 2025 dataset published at the Swedish National Data Service https://doi.org/10.5878/2x1z-jm10) contains only taxa that were treated as species during the Red List assessments, and consequently differs from this dataset which includes all taxon ranks.

Further reading is available at https://www.slu.se/artdatabanken/rodlistade-arter/ (Swedish only).

Geographic Description

The country of Sweden including the area of Sweden’s Economic Zone (EEZ).

Purpose

The Red List has been developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to evaluate the health of the world’s biodiversity (www.iucnredlist.org). The Swedish Red List has been revised every fifth year based on the IUCN Red List Criteria, and summarizes the conservation status of evaluated species in Sweden. The Red List provides an important knowledge base for monitoring environmental objectives and for identifying and prioritizing nature conservation efforts. The most recently published Red List is valid until a new list is published.

Data quality

Before finalising results, a public review was conducted.

Methods

The Swedish Red List 2025 is based on the international IUCN Red List Criteria (IUCN 2012). The evaluations were made in collaboration with more than 100 experts, subdivided into 14 committees treating different organism groups.Information on occurrence, distribution and trends was compiled from environmental monitoring, available observation data, expert knowledge, research data, museum collections and literature.Detailed information on population size and trends was only available for a restricted number of species, whereas in most cases estimates were calculated or inferred based on ecological knowledge combined with data on habitat status.For many organism groups, knowledge is still very poor, and many species (e.g. marine invertebrates) are therefore categorized as Data Deficient (DD). Others are not evaluated (NE) – e.g. many invertebrates and fungi – or regarded as not applicable (NA).

Type of content

Includes: Point occurrence data.

Citation

SLU Artdatabanken (2025). The Swedish Red List 2025. Checklist dataset

Rights

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

Metadata last updated on 2026-05-04 03:03:08.0