Employment — national citizens

In 2010, Sweden's employment increased by 0.3% compared to 2009, reaching 4,195k.

Sweden accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 172,083k.

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 2.9% (from 4,077k in 2005).

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