SE · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits — education
Sweden, 2020
In 2020, Sweden's first residence permits decreased by 41.7% compared to 2019, reaching 6,834.
Sweden accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 283,675.
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 fallen by 23.9% (from 8,975 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.