Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2019, Sweden's employment increased by 16.1% compared to 2018, reaching 240k.

Sweden accounts for 2.7% of the EU-27 total of 8,824k.

Sweden ranks 6th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 73.6% (from 138k in 2014).

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