Unemployment / Sweden
Sweden Unemployment
Sweden unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 8.69%.
COUNTRY: Sweden
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Sweden · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
13.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
15.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Sweden · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
8.69%
Previous
8.40%
Range avg.
7.61%
Rank
19
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CountrySweden
IndicatorUnemployment
8.69%2025 · Rank 19
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Sweden recorded 8.69% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.29 percentage points, from 8.40% to 8.69%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (7.61%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 6.37% in 2018 and the high was 8.80% in 2021.
Comparison
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