Sweden Employment Rate
Sweden employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 58.98%.
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Interpretation
Sweden recorded 58.98% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.32 percentage points, from 59.30% to 58.98%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (59.56%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 58.53% in 2021 and the high was 60.40% in 2018.