Employment — non-EU foreign citizens

In 2017, Sweden's employment increased by 11.4% compared to 2016, reaching 183k.

Sweden accounts for 2.3% of the EU-27 total of 7,876k.

Sweden ranks 6th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 61.2% (from 114k in 2012).

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