<P> 3 times as many cases of terrorism financing were reported in Sweden 2017 compared to 2016 . </P> <P> According to the National Agency for Education, in 2008, due to the closer similarity between the Swedish language and the native languages of Yugoslavia, pupils from the former Yugoslavia (who comprised a large portion of asylum immigrants during the 1990s) had greater ease in learning Swedish than pupils from more remotely located Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria . </P> <P> In 2015, about 35% of foreign - born residents had insufficient skills in literacy and numeracy, compared to about 5% of the domestic - born . The difference in skills was greater than in other comparable countries . The reasons for this discrepancy were that Sweden had a higher share of migration based on asylum rather than labour migration, and that many migrants had not resided in the country long enough to master the language . </P> <P> In 2018, researcher Pernilla Andersson Joona at Stockholm University found that 50% of recently arrived migrants had less than the Swedish 9 - year basic education (Swedish: grundskolekompetens). </P>

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