According to this, murders are about the same as 30 years ago: https://bra.se/statistik/statistik-om-brottstyper/mord-och-d...
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.