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> As a Swede I always found it interesting we were one of the few countries which do not flouridate tap water. Wikipedia doesn't support this claim. Here are t
by _Microft 2y ago
> As a Swede I always found it interesting we were one of the few countries which do not flouridate tap water.
Wikipedia doesn't support this claim. Here are two quotes from different articles:
(1) "As of November 2012, a total of about 378 million people worldwide received artificially fluoridated water. The majority of those were in the United States. About 40 million worldwide received water that was naturally fluoridated to recommended levels.", from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#Worldwide_prevalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#Worldwide_p...
(2) "Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).
The first water fluoridation in Europe was in West Germany and Sweden in 1952, bringing fluoridated water to about 42,000 people. By mid-1962, about 1 million Europeans in 18 communities in 11 countries were receiving fluoridated water.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country#...
- bitshiftfaced 2y agoIt seems that Sweden no longer adds fluoride, but it's really besides the point since it says, > 57.4 million people receive naturally occurring fluoridated water at or above optimal levels in countries such as Sweden, China, Sri Lanka, Finland, Zimbabwe and Gabon.[1]