SE · 2023 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Sweden, 2023
In 2023, Sweden's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 9.5% compared to 2022, reaching 76,718.
Sweden accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 3,821,562.
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 37.8% (from 123,433 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.