Temporary employment in Sweden rises to 707,000
The number of fixed-term employees in Sweden rose by 46,000 from a year earlier to 707,000 in the second quarter, Statistics Sweden (SCB) reported on Tuesday.
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The year-on-year increase in SCB’s new labour-force figures was statistically significant. In seasonally adjusted and smoothed data, fixed-term employment reached 681,000, up from 666,000 in the first quarter and 629,000 in the second quarter of 2025. SCB said this was the second consecutive quarterly rise.
Women accounted for 394,000 fixed-term employees and men for 313,000 in the unadjusted figures. Sweden had 4.826 million employees overall. Permanent employees numbered 4.118 million; their 43,000 year-on-year decrease did not meet SCB’s threshold for a statistically significant change.
Total employment was 5.315 million. Unadjusted unemployment stood at 550,000, or 9.4 percent, while the seasonally adjusted and smoothed unemployment rate was 8.7 percent.
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