SE · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Sweden, 2020
In 2020, Sweden's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 30.2% compared to 2019, reaching 74,852.
Sweden accounts for 3.2% of the EU-27 total of 2,332,051.
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 32.3% (from 110,623 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.