EU
Sweden
~35%
Work in exposed occupations
~1.83 m · estimate · 2025
8.9%
Unemployment
+0.3 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
23.0%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
2.2%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
81.8%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
35%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.75
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
5.26 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
SwedenEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Sweden
- 43Not exposed
- 22Minimal
- 3Low
- 14Medium
- 13High
- 5Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+10.0%
Change 2025→2035
2.28 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
1.74 m
Replacement demand
+546 k
Expansion
- Information and communications technology professionals+36.7%
- Production and specialised services managers+34.9%
- Numerical and material recording clerks+34.4%
- Health professionals+34.2%
- Business and administration professionals+32.5%
- Legal, social and cultural professionals+28.6%
- Sales workers−15.9%
- Metal, machinery and related trades workers−19.5%
- Assemblers−19.9%
- Cleaners and helpers−20.9%
- Protective services workers−24.5%
- Stationary plant and machine operators−44.6%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
10%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
34%
of skills will change
global: 39%
91%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.