Employment — national citizens

In 2018, Sweden's employment increased by 1.0% compared to 2017, reaching 4,562k.

Sweden accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 177,872k.

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 5.9% (from 4,308k in 2013).

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