Employment — national citizens

In 2002, Sweden's employment increased by 0.3% compared to 2001, reaching 4,089k.

Sweden accounts for 3.4% of the EU-27 total of 119,460k.

Sweden ranks 7th out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 10.1% (from 3,715k in 1997).

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