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  • The labour market remained subdued in January 2025

    People in employment aged 15 to 74 numbered 5 107 000 in January in 2025. This is a decrease of 25 000 people compared with January 2024. In the 20 to 65 age range, 305 000 people were unemployed. This equals a share of 6.0 percent expressed as a percentage of the labour force and is an increase of 0.6 percentage point compared with the same period of the previous year.

  • GDP share of health and medical care was 11.2 percent

    In 2023, health and medical care comprised 11.2 percent of GDP. General government financed 86 percent of the total expenditures, while households paid 13 percent of the total expenditures via patient fees and other fees.

  • Total shortage of 70 000 people in various occupations

    During the third quarter of 2024, there was a total shortage of 70 000 people in various occupations across Sweden. At the same time, half of employers had experienced some type of problem when recruiting in the past six months. This is shown by new statistics from Statistics Sweden.

  • From January 2025, Employments will be published monthly

    The number of ongoing employments has continued to decrease. In January 2025, the decrease was 0.7 percent compared to the same month the previous year. During the same period, worked time decreased by 3.0 percent, amounting to 608 million hours. The proportion of sickness was 2.1 percent. The total gross pay was 191 000 millions SEK.

  • Expenditures on social protection as a share of GDP remained largely unchanged in 2023

    Social protection expenditures as a share of GDP remained more or less unchanged between 2022 and 2023, with shares at 27.5 and 27.4 percent respectively. Social protection expenditures in current prices increased, but less compared to the increase of GDP.