The real estate sector accounted for the largest percentage of total investments, at 38 percent. The industrial sector accounted for 20 percent of investments in the second quarter.
At the end of June 2019, total wealth amounted to SEK 4 401 billion, an increase of SEK 186 billion compared with the previous quarter. Households’ directly-owned fund wealth contributed SEK 28 billion to the increase in total fund wealth in Swedish-registered investment funds.
In the second quarter of 2019, there were 4 909 426 employees, an increase of 1.9 percent compared with the same quarter a year ago. Total gross pay amounted to SEK 487 billion, an increase of 3.8 percent. There were 136 700 job openings on the labour market, an increase of 2.4 percent.
In July 2019 there were 5 239 000 employed persons. The unemployment rate was 6.9 percent, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points compared with July 2018. The number of hours worked per week amounted to 109.0 million on average. Smoothed and seasonally adjusted data indicates a decrease in the employment rate and an increase in the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate was 6.8 percent.
The population of Sweden at the end of June 2019 was 10 281 189, which is 51 004 more persons than at the end of December 2018.