Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2006, Sweden's employment increased by 4.9% compared to 2005, reaching 88k.

Sweden accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 6,258k.

Sweden ranks 10th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 5.9% (from 94k in 2001).

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