Sweden in numbers
Where Sweden stands among the 27 EU member states on income, jobs, prices and inequality, and who lives there. Every figure is a link to the Eurostat table it was read from; where Eurostat publishes nothing, the page says so.
Reading Sweden's numbers
- Eurostat publishes no figure for Sweden for: Statutory minimum wage; Statutory minimum wage, adjusted for prices. These rows are gaps in the tables this site loads; they are left as gaps and never filled from another country or another source.
Where it stands in the EU
Most unusual measures first.
| Measure | Period | Sweden | EU | Among EU states with a figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployment rateages 15 to 74, both sexes | 2025 | 8.8% | 6.0% | 4th highest of 27 |
| GDP per headindex, EU = 100 | 2025 | 111 | 100 | 8th highest of 27 |
| GDP per head, adjusted for pricespurchasing power standard | 2025 | 46,344 | 41,699 | 8th highest of 27 |
| Economic growthreal GDP, change on the year | 2025 | 1.4% | 1.4% | 16th highest of 27 |
| Income inequality (Gini)0 to 100, higher is more unequal | 2025 | 28.6 | 29.2 | 15th highest of 27 |
| Top fifth earns this many times the bottom fifthincome quintile share ratio | 2025 | 4.58 | 4.62 | 15th highest of 27 |
Ranks compare the 27 EU member states. Eurostat’s figure for Cyprus covers the government-controlled area only.
Work and pay
The latest published figure for each measure.
| Measure | Period | Sweden | EU | Among EU states with a figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rateages 20 to 64, both sexes | 2025 | 81.8% | no figure published | 4th highest of 27 |
| Statutory minimum wageeuro per month | none published | no figure published | no EU figure loaded | not ranked |
| Statutory minimum wage, adjusted for pricespurchasing power standard per month | none published | no figure published | no EU figure loaded | not ranked |
Prices and housing
The latest published figure for each measure.
| Measure | Period | Sweden | EU | Among EU states with a figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer price inflationall items, annual average change | 2025 | 2.6% | 2.5% | 15th highest of 27 |
| Housing and utilities pricesannual average change | 2025 | 6.1% | 2.8% | joint 7th highest of 27 |
| House pricesannual change in the house price index | 2025 | 1.0% | no figure published | 24th highest of 26 |
Income and poverty
The latest published figure for each measure.
Who lives here
On 1 January 2024, foreign citizens and stateless people made up 7.9%* of the people living in Sweden, against 9.6%* across the EU. Citizenship, birth and migration in Sweden → Compare the share across countries →
More on Sweden
* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.