Indicator history

 Sweden again ranks high in unemployment of the foreign-born relative to the native- born. Statistics from Statistical centralbyrån (SCB) shows that during the first quarter of 2011 there was an increase of the total number of foreign-born people in the workforce by 42,977 people compared to the first quarter of 2010. In 2011, the number of employed immigrants was 67,1 % compared with 71,9% of the general population. The rate is particularly low among immigrant women, for whom the employment rate is 56.5% and has decreased since 2010. In metropolitan areas where many newly arrived immigrants have settled, the proportion of employed was 58 percent for foreign-born workers and 82 percent among those born in Sweden in 2008. Six out of 10 foreign-born workers live in metropolitan areas and a large proportion of them come from outside Europe. 

Most foreign-born work within the service sector, such as elderly care, cleaning, taxi, restuarants.