Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2012, Sweden's employment increased by 5.6% compared to 2011, reaching 114k.

Sweden accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 6,979k.

Sweden ranks 9th 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 35.9% (from 84k in 2007).

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