Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2020, Sweden's employment decreased by 6.3% compared to 2019, reaching 225k.

Sweden accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 8,669k.

Sweden ranks 6th 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 58.3% (from 142k in 2015).

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