Key figures of Sweden

  Value Change from
Prev. period Corresp. period prev. year
Business activities
Industrial production index
March 2013
101.5  (1

index 2010=100
0.8%  (2 0.0%  (3
New orders in industry
March 2013
109.0  (1

Index 2010=100
10.5%  (2 11.2%  (3
Housing, construction and building
Real Estate Price Index, quarter
Q1 2013
541

Index 1981=100
0% +3%
Real Estate Price Index, year
Year 2012
535

Index 1981=100
-1%
Started dwellings under new construction
Year 2012
19.62

Thousands
-16%
Labour market
Employed
March 2013
4643

Thousands
.. 0.5%
Employment rate
March 2013
65.0

Percent
.. -0.1 %-unit
Hourly earnings of manual workers in the private sector
February 2013
150.6

SEK
-0.5% 2.0%
Labour force
March 2013
5091

Thousands
.. 1.4%
Labour force rate
March 2013
71.3

Percent
.. 0.6 %-unit
Monthly salary of non-manual workers in the private sector
February 2013
35 500

SEK
0.1% 1.8%
Unemployed
March 2013
448

Thousands
.. 12.1%
Unemployed (aged 15-24)
March 2013
182

Thousands
.. 15.3%
Unemployed for more than 6 months (relative to all unemployed)
March 2013
31.4

Percent
.. -3.0 %-unit
Unemployment rate
March 2013
8.8

Percent
.. 0.8 %-unit
Unemployment rate (aged 15-24)
March 2013
28.1

Percent
.. 3.0 %-unit
National Accounts
National Accounts, GDP
4th Quarter 2012
925 273

SEK million. Constant prices, reference year 2011. Working-day adjusted.
0.0%  (2 1.4%  (3
National Accounts, GDP
4th Quarter 2012
923 500

SEK million current prices
National Accounts, GDP per capita
2012
373.5

1 000 SEK
National Accounts, GNI per capita
2012
382,2

1 000 SEK
0.6%
National Accounts, Gross National Income, GNI
2012
3 638 253

SEK million current prices
1.3%
Population
Population
31 March 2013
9 573 466

Number of persons
0.07% 0.82%
Prices and Consumption
Consumer Price Index
April 2013
314.03

Index 1980=100
-0.2%
CPIF
April 2013
200.63

Index 1987=100
-0.2% 0.5%
Export Price Index
March 2013
104.7

Index 2005=100
-1.9% -7.2%
Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP)
April 2013
113.78

Index 2005=100
-0.2% 0.0%
Import Price Index
March 2013
108.4

Index 2005=100
-3.2% -7.4%
Inflation rate
April 2013


-0.5%
Net Price Index
April 2013
264.12

Index 1980=100
-0.1% -0.7%
Price Index for domestic supply
March 2013
114.2

index 2005=100
-1.7% -4.4%
Producer Price Index
March 2013
112.1

Index 2005=100
-1.1% -4.4%
Producer Price Index, home sales
March 2013
120.2

Index 2005=100
-0.3% -1.5%
Service Producer Price Index
1st quarter 2013
112.6

Index 2005=100
0.6%
Public finances
Public sector net lending, percentage to GDP, according to EU convergence criteria
2009
-0.9

percent
-3.1 %-unit
Public sektor gross debt, percentage to GDP, according to EU convergence criteria
2009
41.9

percent
3.7 %-unit
Taxratio, percentage to GDP
2009
46,9

percent
0.4 %-unit
Trade in goods and services
Exports of Goods
March 2013
91.8

SEK billion
-13.7%  (4
Imports of Goods
March 2013
85.0

SEK billion
-16.3%  (4
Net Trade of Goods
March 2013
6.8

SEK billion
Retail Trade
March 2013
105.3  (1

2010=100
-0.4%  (2 1.8%  (3
Service production index
March 2013
107.3  (1

Index 2010=100
-0.9%  (2 0.5%  (3
Transport and communications
New registration of passenger cars
April 2013
26 642

Number of passenger cars
0.4%  (2 4.9%

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