Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2002, Sweden's employment decreased by 1.5% compared to 2001, reaching 93k.

Sweden accounts for 3.3% of the EU-27 total of 2,849k.

Sweden ranks 7th out of 16 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 20.3% (from 77k in 1997).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.