Employment — national citizens

In 2022, Sweden's employment increased by 2.9% compared to 2021, reaching 4,602k.

Sweden accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 180,106k.

Sweden ranks 9th 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 1.9% (from 4,516k in 2017).

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