Welcome to Ekonomifakta
Would you like to get a better understanding of the Swedish economy? Ekonomifakta.se helps you to gain new insights by providing you with key facts on the business climate, employment, GDP:GDP, taxes and other important areas of the Swedish economy.
This English version gives you a small sample of what is available in the Swedish version of the website, for example some facts and figures and some background on Swedish economic history.
Swedish economic history
In this section, you will find a brief introduction to approximately 150 years of Swedish economic history. During this time, Sweden developed from a poor agrarian country on the outskirts of Europe to one of the wealthiest nations in the world. The articles below describe this transition.
- 2007-01-11
Agricultural toward Industrial
In the mid-1850s, Sweden was still a poor agrarian country on Europe’s periphery. Just 120 years later, it had become one of the world’s wealthiest nations measured by GDP per capita.
- 2007-01-11
Structural Problems and Reforms
Despite the golden decades in the 1950s and the 1960s, Sweden suffered problems originating in dysfunctions within the economy. All of these problems surfaced during the mid-1970s oil crisis.
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- 2026-05-25
GDP per capita
The list of purchasing power-adjusted GDP per capita for the OECD countries provides a rough comparison of living standards across countries. Measured this way, Sweden was the fourth-richest OECD country in the 1970s.
- 2026-03-19
The Employment Rate
Compared to most other countries, Sweden has a high employment rate. A key factor behind this is the high level of female participation in the labour force.
- 2026-03-19
Inflation rate
Inflation erodes the purchasing power of money by increasing the overall price level in an economy. One of the most widely used methods for measuring the inflation rate is the Consumer Price Index (CPI).