Employment — national citizens

In 2016, Sweden's employment increased by 1.2% compared to 2015, reaching 4,445k.

Sweden accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 174,907k.

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 3.8% (from 4,283k in 2011).

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