It's a different culture than the US. Not at all the same pressure to immediately go to university, many people get jobs and travel while feeling out what field they really want to enter. This is of course dependent on the current jobs market. Personally I had three years.

Then university has nothing of the general courses and only specialized following your program.

You have some statistics in page 7 here, for Sweden though. It is influenced by people taking single courses and masters programs instead of the first enrollment so keep that in mind.

https://www.uhr.se/globalassets/_uhr.se/publikationer/2020/s...