Employment — national citizens

In 2008, Sweden's employment increased by 0.6% compared to 2007, reaching 4,298k.

Sweden accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 177,751k.

Sweden ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.9% (from 4,096k in 2003).

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