SE · 2019 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Sweden, 2019
In 2019, Sweden's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 13.1% compared to 2018, reaching 107,212.
Sweden accounts for 3.6% of the EU-27 total of 2,985,017.
Sweden ranks 7th 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 0.7% (from 107,947 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.