Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2014, Sweden's employment increased by 9.4% compared to 2013, reaching 138k.

Sweden accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 6,910k.

Sweden ranks 8th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 50.2% (from 92k in 2009).

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