The number of ongoing employments increased by 0.6 percent compared to November previous year. During the same period, hours worked increased by 0.1 percent, amounting to 706 million hours. The proportion of sickness was 2.0 percent. The total gross pay was 197 000 million SEK.
The volume of retail trade decreased by 0.7 percent in December 2025 compared with November 2025. Retail sales in durables decreased by 1.1 percent and retail sales in consumables (excluding Systembolaget, the state-owned chain of liquor stores) decreased by 0.1 percent. These figures are calendar and seasonally adjusted and calculated in constant prices.
The lending rates decreased for all enterprise sizes in November compared to October. This means that the lending rates have now been falling for around two years. For large enterprises, which account for around half of the total loan amount, the lending rate was 3.31 percent in November. This can be compared with the lending rate two years ago, in November 2023, when it was 5.15 percent. Tenant owners’ associations, reported as a separate size category, recorded the lowest lending rate at 2.88 percent in November.
Coming to a new country often means starting over – with the language, with the education and with working life. The results from PIAAC 2023 show that foreign born people on average have lower literacy and numeracy skills than Swedish born people, but that the skills are clearly strengthened with more years in Sweden, higher education and establishment in the labour market.
Swedish GDP contracted by 0.6 percent in December, seasonally adjusted and compared with the previous month, according to the preliminary compilation of the GDP indicator. For the fourth quarter as a whole GDP increased with 0.2 percent compared with the preceding quarter. Calendar adjusted GDP for December was 0.9 percent higher than in the corresponding month of the preceding year, while GDP for the quarter as a whole was 1.8 percent higher than in the fourth quarter of 2024.