Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Oct 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
10.50 % on Jun 30, 2021
Lowest
1.30 % on Jul 31, 1989
About Sweden unemployment rate
In Sweden, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Sweden unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Sweden unemployment rate is 1.30%.
The highest figure Sweden unemployment rate has ever reached is 10.50%.
Last month Sweden unemployment rate was 7.80%, and the month before that it amounted to 8.20%.