Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2003, Sweden's employment increased by 1.5% compared to 2002, reaching 89k.

Sweden accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 4,357k.

Sweden ranks 8th out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 20.9% (from 74k in 1998).

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