Employment — foreign citizens (any)

In 2015, Sweden's employment increased by 1.0% compared to 2014, reaching 263k.

Sweden accounts for 2.1% of the EU-27 total of 12,670k.

Sweden ranks 9th 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 27.9% (from 205k in 2010).

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