 Some observers have noted that practitioners have left Sweden in order to ply their trade elsewhere, Africa being one destination.In 2001, the Malmö police reported that there was no evidence that the law had reduced violence; rather, there was evidence it had increased,

In 2007, "Der Spiegel", a German news magazine, stated that according to the Swedish police, 400 to 600 foreign women are brought to Sweden each year to be prostitutes.In Finland, which is only half the size of Sweden, that number is between 10,000 and 15,000 women.