SE · 2015 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits — work
Sweden, 2015
In 2015, Sweden's first residence permits increased by 5.8% compared to 2014, reaching 15,726.
Sweden accounts for 2.7% of the EU-27 total of 589,099.
Sweden ranks 6th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3.0% (from 15,273 in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.