SE · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits — other
Sweden, 2020
In 2020, Sweden's first residence permits decreased by 37.2% compared to 2019, reaching 13,364.
Sweden accounts for 2.7% of the EU-27 total of 491,700.
Sweden ranks 8th 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 66.2% (from 39,568 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.