Employment — national citizens

In 2014, Sweden's employment increased by 0.6% compared to 2013, reaching 4,335k.

Sweden accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 171,547k.

Sweden ranks 9th 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 3.6% (from 4,183k in 2009).

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