Compulsory Sterilisation

"The most well-known compulsory sterilization programs were those of Nazi Germany (which sterilized over 400,000 individuals in the 1930s and 1940s), the United States (which sterilized over 64,000 individuals from 1900s through the 1970s), and many Scandinavian countries. Sweden sterlised the highest proportion of their own citizen, 62,000 individuals from the 1930s through the 1970s within the population of +6,000,000 where it was made condition for receiving welfare, release from institution or prisons or keeping custody of children."

Is it only me who's surprised by the US and Sweden being in this list?

From Wikipedia

(I read it on the internet, so it must be true!)