Employment — EU-foreign citizens

In 2009, Sweden's employment increased by 6.0% compared to 2008, reaching 111k.

Sweden accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 4,535k.

Sweden ranks 9th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 23.0% (from 91k in 2004).

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