People in employment aged 15 to 74 numbered 5 181 000 in October in 2025. The number of employed increaseb by 15 000 people compared with October 2024. In the 20 to 65 age range, 286 000 people were unemployed. This equals a share of 5.6 percent expressed as a percentage of the labour force and is an increase of 0.1 percentage point compared with the same period of the previous year.
The number of ongoing employments increased by 0.5 percent compared to October previous year. During the same period, hours worked increased by 2.0 percent, amounting to 719 million hours. The proportion of sickness was 2.1 percent. The total gross pay was 197 000 million SEK.
The volume of retail trade increased by 1.1 percent in November 2025 compared with October 2025. Retail sales in durables increased by 1.4 percent and retail sales in consumables (excluding Systembolaget, the state-owned chain of liquor stores) increased by 0.7 percent. These figures are working-day and seasonally adjusted and calculated in constant prices.
Just under half, 48 percent, of all voters in the 2024 European Parliament election voted in advance. It was more common among women, 49 percent, than among men, 46 percent. Older voters cast advance votes to a greater extent than younger voters. The highest proportion of advance voting was found in municipalities in northern Sweden.
The lending rate decreased or remained unchanged for all economic activities in October compared to September. The largest drop was recorded for office real estate, where the interest rate fell to 3.50 percent in October from 3.59 percent in September. For housing real estate companies, the interest rate decreased to 3.11 percent in October from 3.15 percent in September. Tenant owners’ associations faced the lowest interest rate of all economic activities at 2.89 percent in October, down from 2.91 percent in September.