Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2011, Sweden's employment increased by 9.8% compared to 2010, reaching 108k.

Sweden accounts for 1.5% of the EU-27 total of 7,013k.

Sweden ranks 12th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 22.3% (from 88k in 2006).

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