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Study: Sweden should welcome more immigrants to maintain its economic and social development

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

A new report from the Swedish Employment Agency suggests that Sweden will need at least 64,000 new immigrants each year to be able to fund schools and public health care.

"The population of working age in Sweden is slowly declining and we need more people to work, to pay taxes and finance the social protection system," said Friday the Director General of the Agency in a statement to the Swedish news agency TT.

"If we accept fewer immigrants and refugees, we will also limit our resources in the future," he warned.

According to the report, the proportion of native Swedes in the workforce fell by 140,000 people during the past seven years.

However, the number of foreign-born workers has increased over the last nine years of 304,000 people.

Despite this, only 64% of Swedes born abroad are employed today compared to 79 per% of Swedes born in the Scandinavian countries.

These are mostly people with little or no education who have trouble finding a job in Sweden, according to the report.

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