Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2005, Sweden's employment increased by 5.9% compared to 2004, reaching 84k.

Sweden accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 5,830k.

Sweden ranks 9th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.2% (from 82k in 2000).

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