Sweden Employment Rate

Employment Rate in Sweden increased to 68 percent in February from 67.60 percent in January of 2019. Employment Rate in Sweden averaged 66.24 percent from 2005 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 70.80 percent in July of 2018 and a record low of 62.60 percent in January of 2010.

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Sweden Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	7.10	6.60	10.50	1.30	percent	[+]
Employed Persons	5093.00	5065.00	5281.00	4236.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	391.00	358.00	503.00	243.00	Thousand	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	1.20	1.30	3.50	0.30	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	17.80	17.50	27.80	2.90	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	133.00	132.70	133.00	100.00	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	1520.00	1449.00	1520.00	51.00	Hundred	[+]
Wages	174.70	172.90	174.70	133.60	SEK/Hour	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	185.80	183.10	185.80	139.70	SEK/Hour	[+]
Population	10.12	10.00	10.12	7.47	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	61.00	61.00	61.00	61.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	61.00	61.00	61.00	61.00		[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	72.70	72.30	75.30	69.20	percent	[+]
Wage Growth	2.60	2.50	7.10	1.90	percent	[+]
Productivity	105.00	114.20	114.50	68.30	Index Points	[+]
Part Time Employment	1115.60	1093.10	1177.30	824.30	Thousand	[+]
Employment Change	0.30	0.30	1.10	-1.20	percent	[+]
Employment Rate	68.00	67.60	70.80	62.60	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	3817.10	3895.20	3895.20	2896.00	Thousand	[+]

In Sweden, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population. This page provides - Sweden Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Sweden Employment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	68.00	67.60	70.80	62.60	2005 - 2019	percent	Monthly	NSA

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Country	Last		Previous	Range
Mexico	96.70	Feb/19	96.43	97.23 : 93.58	%
Switzerland	80.50	Sep/18	79.9	81.3 : 76.9	%
Netherlands	77.70	Sep/18	77	77.7 : 63.5	%
Germany	76.30	Sep/18	75.4	76.3 : 63.6	%
United Kingdom	76.10	Jan/19	76.1	76.1 : 65.6	%
France	66.10	Dec/18	65.9	66.1 : 63.5	%
Spain	64.00	Dec/18	64.01	67.18 : 54.91	%
Australia	62.30	Mar/19	62.3	62.9 : 54	%
Canada	61.90	Mar/19	62	63.7 : 56	%
United States	60.60	Mar/19	60.7	64.7 : 55	%
South Korea	60.10	Dec/18	61.4	61.6 : 56.1	%
Japan	60.00	Feb/19	59.7	63.5 : 55.9	%
Russia	59.10	Feb/19	58.8	66.6 : 58.8	%
Italy	58.60	Feb/19	58.7	58.9 : 55.3	%
Brazil	53.90	Feb/19	54.2	57.3 : 53.1	%
Turkey	45.90	Jan/19	46.3	47.9 : 38.9	%
South Africa	43.34	Dec/18	43.1	46.17 : 41	%
Argentina	42.20	Dec/18	42.5	43.4 : 36.3	%