Sweden Capacity Utilization

Last Release

Sep 30, 2025

Actual

88.8

Units In

88.5

Frequency

Quarterly

Next Release

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Time to Release

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Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
91.3 Sep 2019	76 Jun 2009	87.33 %	1980-2025	Statistics Sweden

In Sweden, Capacity Utilization is the difference between the potential and actual use of an input. Capacity utilization is high when actual output is close to potential output because the most use is being made of labor and capital.

Latest Updates

Industries in Sweden operated at 88.8% of capacity in the third quarter of 2025, down 0.2 percentage points from an upwardly revised 89% in the previous quarter. The utilization level remained considerably below the full-capacity threshold of 100%, indicating that a significant portion of industrial resources continued to be underutilized. Among the factors contributing to lower capacity utilization, the most notable was insufficient demand, which accounted for the largest share of reasons cited by firms. This factor declined from 60.9% in the previous quarter to 57.8% in Q3. On an annual basis, and after adjusting for calendar effects, capacity utilization in Swedish industries increased by 1.7 percentage points compared with the same quarter in 2024, reaching 88.5%.