Statistics Sweden (SCB) API

Base URL

https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris

Authentication

No API key. SCB asks for reasonable use and publishes a call quota per time window rather than a hard key requirement.

Rate limit

SCB documents a limit on calls per ten-second window and a cap on cells per response. Walk the tree once and cache it.

Pricing

Free. SCB data is published under Creative Commons Zero, so no attribution is legally required.

CORS

Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 2026-08-21, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/en/ssd/BE'

const res = await fetch("https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/en/ssd/BE");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/en/ssd/BE", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

[
  {
    "id": "BE0001",
    "type": "l",
    "text": "Name statistics"
  },
  {
    "id": "BE0401",
    "type": "l",
    "text": "Population projections"
  },
  {
    "id": "BE0701",
    "type": "l",
    "text": "Demographic Analysis (Demography)"
  },
  {
    "id": "BE0101",
    "type": "l",
    "text": "Population statistics"
  }
]

idstring

Node identifier such as `BE0101`. Append it to the current path to descend.

typestring

`l` for a level with children, `t` for a table that holds data. This is how you know when to stop walking.

textstring

Human label for the node, in the language chosen in the path.

variablesarray

Returned when you GET a table: each variable with its code, label, permitted values and value texts.

variables[].eliminationboolean

Whether the variable may be omitted from a query. If false, you must supply a selection for it.

variables[].timeboolean

Marks the time variable, which is the one you usually filter to a recent range.

• Pull Swedish population, housing or price statistics into a report
• Build a Swedish or English statistics browser over the SSD tree
• Automate a recurring extract of an official Swedish series
• Discover a table's query schema before writing the request