Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2018, Sweden's employment increased by 12.7% compared to 2017, reaching 206k.

Sweden accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 8,309k.

Sweden ranks 6th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 63.7% (from 126k in 2013).

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