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Sweden at 28%. Give or take 5%. The more public sector businesses, the more socialist the country gets.
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The article was written in 2009 and the graph stops at 2005. So....
And according to OECD latest Government at a glance in 2007 Sweden had 30.26% employed in general government as percentage of total employment, in 2015 it was 28.59%.

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Social Democrats believe in economic and social interventions within a capitalist economy. Creating measures for income redistribution and regulation of the economy in the general interest and welfare state provisions. Sounds socialist within the limits of capitalism.
Sounds but isn't - similarly as "social democracy" sounds similar to "democratic socialism".
People who know what the meaning of words and/or history know the difference.

In particular the state taking control of the means of production - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism - was actually something that politicians (even in the west) were considering a couple of decades ago.

Some minor parties still do.