Short facts about our mission
Here we have gathered facts to give a quick overview of Arbetsförmedlingen's operations.
Statistics
Jobseekers, labour market programmes, vacancies, redundancy notices and the introduction programme.
Statistics (in Swedish)
Monthly and weekly statistics (in Swedish)
Statistics from 1992 until now (in Swedish)
Forecasts and analyses
Reports on the labour market, labour market programmes and forecasts.
Analyses and forecasts (in Swedish)
Offers and services
Our services for jobseekers and employers. Everything is free of charge.
Offers and services for jobseekers (in Swedish)
Officers and services for employers (in Swedish)
Our special placement services
Employment services within shipping, culture and media.
Special placement services (in Swedish)
Procured employment services
Arbetsförmedlingen procures labour market services from various suppliers in order to help jobseekers find employment or education quickly and effectively.
For suppliers (in Swedish)
Assignment from the Government
We work on behalf of the Swedish Parliament and the Government, in part through annual appropriation directions. Follow the link below to see examples of priority activities that the Government has decided we should work on.
How the 2025 budget was used
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Total budget of SEK 76.4 billion comprised of:
- unemployment insurance: 24.2 billion
- activity grant and development allowance: 18.2 billion
- wage subsidies: 11.7 billion
- administration: 7.5 billion
- programmes and efforts: 6.1 billion
- new-start jobs: 3.5 billion
- introduction benefit: 0.9 billion
- 4.3 billion was returned
Statistics from 2025
- 1.04 million job openings were reported to the Job Bank (2024: 1.2 million).
- Arbetsförmedlingen’s website had an average of 10 million visits per month (2024: 9 million).
- A total of 905,000 people (48 percent women, 52 percent men) were registered as job seekers with Arbetsförmedlingen (2024: 889,000). Of these, 315,000 were foreign-born (2024: 320,000).
- On average, approximately 367,000 people (48 percent women, 52 percent men) were registered as unemployed each month in 2025 (2024: 357,000).
- In 2025, an average of 152,000 people (51 percent women, 49 percent men) were registered as unemployed for more than 12 months each month (2024: 143,000).
- Just under 258,000 (54 percent men, 46 percent women) of the unemployed had at most a pre-secondary education (2025: 262,000).
- 172,000 registered individuals (54 percent men, 48 percent women) had a disability (2024: 167,000).