Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2015, Sweden's employment increased by 2.8% compared to 2014, reaching 142k.

Sweden accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 7,192k.

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 44.7% (from 98k in 2010).

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