FRIDAY 14 AUGUST · STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

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Tidö blames immigration but Sweden’s own figures show its economy and welfare rely on immigrants

Official figures show foreign-born residents contribute billions after public costs, staff essential care, build businesses, strengthen exports and keep research moving.

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Making It

Foreign-born workers made up about two-thirds of new elderly-care hires

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Making It

Most recognised foreign graduates still lacked matched work eight years later

Two Indian participants collaborate on a laptop during the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon in Hyderabad in 2026.

Making It

India-born residents help power Sweden’s tech sector and add over SEK 6 billion to public finances

Adults work at desktop computers during a Swedish for Immigrants workshop in Värnamo.

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Foreign-born women with lower measured skills work full time less often

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A partial solar eclipse visible through clouds over Tuntorp in western Sweden.

Life Here

Sweden gets a partial eclipse Wednesday, but viewers need eye protection

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A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

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Two adults work together at a weaving loom during an adult-education activity in Norrtälje.

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Sweden's education-linked life-expectancy gap has reached 6.7 years

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Pupils work at tables while a teacher helps a group in a classroom at Enskede school in Stockholm.

Sweden Explained

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A newly installed digital household electricity meter with a zero reading, photographed in Berlin in January 2025.

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A person uses a card reader beside a laptop for an online financial transaction.

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Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

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Sweden’s economy has grown but its social insurance spending has fallen from 8.1 to 3.9 percent of GDP

Four colleagues pose together inside a modern office, including two women wearing headscarves and two men.

Power & Consequence

Tidö blames immigration but Sweden’s own figures show its economy and welfare rely on immigrants

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Power & Consequence

Police made 1,182 security-zone searches and seized no weapons

Alphabet posters, books and learning folders in a Swedish preschool reading-and-writing area.

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Two electricians install a new main electrical distribution board at a property in central Ystad.

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The colourful Kuggen building at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg.

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The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

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A close-up of a baggage tag marked Stockholm Arlanda and ARN.

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The Skatteverket name and symbol mounted on the brick facade of the Kronan office in Sundbyberg, lit by low sunlight.

Decision to Doorstep

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Paul Larsson, head of the Swedish Police Authority's service department, in an official portrait.

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Sweden Democrats supporters hold party flags reading 'Heja Jimmie' during Almedalen Week in Visby in July 2014.

DailySweden view

SD should spend more on integration than on return grants

Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.

DailySweden view

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The Ceuta-Morocco border fence winds through green hills on the Ceuta side.

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