Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Sweden's employment increased by 2.5% compared to 2006, reaching 4,274k.

Sweden accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

Sweden ranks 10th 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 4.5% (from 4,089k in 2002).

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