Sweden Labor Force Participation
Sweden labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 64.60%.
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Interpretation
Sweden recorded 64.60% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.14 percentage points, from 64.74% to 64.60%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (64.47%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 64.08% in 2016 and the high was 64.93% in 2023.