Only 89 per cent of drivers and 85 per cent of passengers in Norrbotten County wore seat belts in connection with observations carried out in the autumn of 2020.

The best in the country are residents in Stockholm and Halland counties, with 99 percent of drivers and passengers wearing seat belts.

In shared third place are residents of Jönköping, Uppsala and Skåne counties, with 98 percent of passengers and drivers.

The second worst is Kronoberg County with 92 percent of drivers and 96 percent of passengers.

The total belt use in the country is 96 percent.

Men are worse than women at wearing seat belts, the newspaper writes.

NTF carried out 350,000 observations in all of the country's municipalities over three weeks.