• Employment increases for the second quarter in a row

    In the first quarter of 2026, the number of employed people amounted to 5 225 000, not seasonally adjusted, which is an increase of 51 000. The total number of hours worked amounted to an average of 158.3 million per week. The number of unemployed people amounted to 524 000. This corresponds to an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent. Seasonally adjusted and smoothed data shows an increase in employment and a decrease in unemployment. The employment rate was 69.4 percent, and the unemployment rate was 8.7 percent.

    2026-05-07 • Labour Force Surveys (LFS)

  • Flash CPI: Inflation rate -0.1 percent in April 2026

    The preliminary CPI inflation rate for April 2026 was -0.1 percent, which was a decrease from March when the inflation rate was 0.5 percent. The monthly change for the CPI from March to April was -0.6 percent. The regular publication for April takes place on May 13.

    2026-05-06 • Consumer Price Index (CPI)

  • Choral singing is the most common activity in the study associations

    Just over 76,000 participated in choral singing under the auspices of the study associations in 2025. In total, around 608,000 participated in a couple of hundred different subjects around Sweden.

    2026-04-30 • Study associations

  • Number of employments increased compared to February previous year

    The number of ongoing employments increased by 0.8 percent compared to February previous year. During the same period, hours worked decreased by 1.2 percent, amounting to 630 million hours. The proportion of sickness absence was 2.6 percent. The total gross pay was 201 000 million SEK.

    2026-04-29 • Employments

  • Higher GDP in March

    Swedish GDP increased by 1.9 percent in March, seasonally adjusted and compared with the previous month, according to the preliminary compilation of the GDP indicator. For the first quarter as a whole GDP decreased with 0.2 percent compared with the preceding quarter. Calendar adjusted GDP for March was 2.5 percent higher than in the corresponding month of the preceding year, while GDP for the quarter as a whole was 1.6 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2025.

    2026-04-29 • National accounts other