Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2010, Sweden's employment increased by 1.0% compared to 2009, reaching 205k.

Sweden accounts for 1.8% of the EU-27 total of 11,531k.

Sweden ranks 10th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 13.0% (from 182k in 2005).

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