The article just says that the numbers are the worst ever for Sweden. But how bad? Is it 1.1x, 2x, or 10x worse than five years ago? How do the crime numbers compare to other European countries? To US?
None of this context is there.
None of this context is there.
Dotted line is reported murders to compare like to like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Fatal_vi...
So to answer the OP's question (Instead of trying to cheat by answering a completely different question) it's about 2x worse now than 10 years ago. The fact that we were once on this level before is completely irrelevant.