Fashion Statistics Sweden

National data

Metric	Value
Population:	9.6 million
Labor force:	5.1 million
Unemployment rate:	7.8 %
GDP per capita (PPS):	60,430 dollars

Consumer Expenditure

Metric	Value
Annual expenditure on clothing:	8.9 billion dollars
Annual expenditure on footwear:	1.5 billion dollars

Fashion companies

According to the Association of the Swedish Fashion Brands statistics the sales of fashion industry reached the amount of 32 billion dollars in 2013, with export accounting for 62 percent of that figure.

	Company name	Market value	Annual revenue	Company type
1	Hennes & Mauritz AB	55 billion dollars	22 billion dollars	Public
2	Marc O'polo	1.3 billion dollars	522 million dollars	Private
3	Acne	438 million dollars	134 million dollars	Private

Exports (2014)

Total exports of textile, apparel and footwear: 2 billion dollars

Exports of clothing and textiles: 1.74 billion dollars

Women’s suits, not knit: 155 million dollars, 9 percent
Nonwoven textiles: 148 million dollars, 8.5 percent
Men’s suits, not knit: 122 million dollars, 7 percent
Sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, etc.: 108 million dollars, 6 percent
Technical fabric for card clothing: 105 million dollars, 6 percent
T-shirts: 87.6 million dollars, 5 percent
Women’s suits: 70.5 million dollar, 4 percent

Exports of footwear and headwear: 245 million dollars

Footwear, with leather body: 94.1 million dollars, 38 percent
Footwear, with textile body: 32.1 million dollars, 13 percent
Other headgear: 47.1 million dollars, 19.2 percent
Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 24.7 million dollars, 10 percent

Imports (2014)

Total imports of textiles, apparel and footwear: 6.7 billion dollars

Imports of clothing: 5.56 billion dollars

Men’s suits, not knit: 522 million dollars, 9 percent
Women’s suits, not knit: 465 million dollars, 8 percent
Sweaters, pullover, sweatshirts, etc.: 472 million dollars, 8 percent
T-shirts: 407 million dollars, 7 percent
Women’s suits: 302 million dollars, 5 percent

Imports of footwear and headwear: 1.08 billion dollars

Footwear, with leather body: 431 million dollar, 40 percent
Footwear, with textile body: 243 million dollar, 22.5 percent
Other footwear of rubber or plastics: 164 million, 15 percent

Sources

These statistics pages are a product of FashionUnited Business Intelligence. For more fashion data, company information and statistics, please refer to the FashionUnited Business Intelligence homepage.

Sources: Eurostat, CIA, ILO, WTO, IBISWorld, OECD, Comtrade (UN), World Bank, Euratex, CZSO.