Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2007, Sweden's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 2.3% compared to 2006, reaching 4,453k.

Sweden accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 187,733k.

Sweden ranks 11th 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 4.3% (from 4,272k in 2002).

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