Denmark vs Sweden: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.
In , Denmark's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 5.53, compared to Sweden's 8.69. That makes Denmark's value 36.4% lower than Sweden's.
Denmark
Rank #80 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 5.53
- Year-over-year
- +3.2%
- 10-year change
- -11.9%
- Peak
- 7.80 (2012)
- Trough
- 3.68 (2008)
Sweden
Rank #44 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 8.69
- Year-over-year
- +3.5%
- 10-year change
- +17.0%
- Peak
- 8.80 (2021)
- Trough
- 6.16 (2007)
Other Denmark comparisons
Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.