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  • Skills increase with more years in Sweden

    Coming to a new country often means starting over – with the language, with the education and with working life. The results from PIAAC 2023 show that foreign born people on average have lower literacy and numeracy skills than Swedish born people, but that the skills are clearly strengthened with more years in Sweden, higher education and establishment in the labour market.

  • GDP down in December

    Swedish GDP contracted by 0.6 percent in December, seasonally adjusted and compared with the previous month, according to the preliminary compilation of the GDP indicator. For the fourth quarter as a whole GDP increased with 0.2 percent compared with the preceding quarter. Calendar adjusted GDP for December was 0.9 percent higher than in the corresponding month of the preceding year, while GDP for the quarter as a whole was 1.8 percent higher than in the fourth quarter of 2024.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s economy decreased in the third quarter of 2025

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 12.4 million tonnes in the third quarter of 2025, according to preliminary figures from Statistics Sweden. This represents a 2.0 per cent decrease compared with the same quarter in 2024. Over the same period, GDP at constant prices increased by 2.6 per cent, resulting in a 4.5 per cent reduction in emission intensity. From a longer-term perspective, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 5.1 percent compared to the third quarter of 2023.

  • Slight increase in Domestic Extraction of Natural Resources in 2024

    Domestic material extraction has begun to pick up again after declining over the past two years. In 2024, a total of 244 million tonnes of natural resources were extracted in Sweden, representing an increase of 1 percent since 2023. Domestic material consumption amounted to 22.8 tonnes per person in 2024 which is an increase of about 3 percent from previous year.

  • Floating mortgage interest rate continues to decline

    The annual growth rate for housing loans increased by 2.9 percent for December. The average floating interest rate for housing loans decreased in December to 2.65 percent while the average fixed interest rate on housing loans with maturities between 1-5 years increased to 2.93 percent.