Publications & Documents

Sweden: Country Health Profile 2017

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 - highlights by country

These notes present selected country highlights from the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 with a specific focus on digital trends among all themes covered.

OECD Employment Outlook 2017 - Key findings for Sweden

Unemployment has fallen in Sweden but slower than on average across OECD countries. At 6.7% in April, unemployment is slightly above its pre-crisis level in 2007.

Tax and Skills: Key findings for all countries

These country specific notes provide figures and commentary from the Taxation and Skills publication that examines how tax policy can encourage skills development in OECD countries.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Northern Sparsely Populated Areas

OECD Territorial Reviews: Sweden 2017 - Monitoring Progress in Multi-level Governance and Rural Policy

Sweden Policy Brief: Increasing the government’s capacity to achieve policy coherence for sustainable development

Sweden has long championed efforts to promote policy coherence and it recognises the importance of identifying and analysing critical interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for greater impact globally and encourages the consideration of transboundary and intergenerational policy effects.

Sweden Policy Brief: Strengthening the application of gender mainstreaming to the budget process

Sweden’s government has reinvigorated the country’s long standing commitment to gender budgeting, taking into account the effects on gender equality when making decisions on the direction and distribution of resources and work is under way to strengthen gender-responsive budgeting efforts.

Sweden Policy Brief: Employment- Boosting Skills from the Bottom Up

The national unemployment rate in Sweden has fallen to less than 7%, but this aggregate number hides important regional disparities which are partly due to inadequate or mismatched skills. To reduce these imbalances, Sweden needs to enhance the engagement of employers at the local level, strengthen regional skills planning, and inject more flexibility in the management of employment and skills policies.

OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook national policy profiles

As part of the STI Outlook 2016, the OECD has released policy profiles by country. These include cross-country analyses that draw on the first joint EC-OECD survey on STI policies. They focus on major STI policy areas, instruments and trends.