Employment — national citizens

In 2005, Sweden's employment increased by 0.4% compared to 2004, reaching 4,077k.

Sweden accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 167,216k.

Sweden ranks 10th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.2% (from 3,876k in 2000).

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