100,000 new residents needed to fill jobs in northern Sweden
- Around 100,000 people need to move to northern Sweden to fill jobs there, but the pace of that effort needs to accelerate significantly.
- Norrbotten and Västerbotten have received around 2,000 new arrivals in the past year.
- At that rate, the total number of new residents over the next decade would fall far short of the estimated 100,000 the Government’s coordinator believes are needed.
Radio Sweden
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