Swedish households feel burden of decreasing real wages


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Apr 2024

STOCKHOLM, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A quarter of Swedish single households with dependent children had difficulties making ends meet last year, Statistics Sweden (SCB) said on Wednesday.

It was the highest proportion since the same study was first done in 2014 and up from 17.7 percent in 2022, according to the figures provided by SCB.

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