Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		1st quarter 2016	2nd quarter 2016	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017	2nd quarter 2017
	2015	2016	1st quarter 2016	2nd quarter 2016	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017	2nd quarter 2017
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	121	132	135	134	138	120	124	123
15-24 years	38	41	42	47	41	34	37	44
25-54 years	75	81	83	78	89	76	76	71
55-74 years	8	10	11	9	9	10	11	9
Males
In total	68	80	84	87	77	73	75	70
15-24 years	22	24	25	29	22	20	22	25
25-54 years	42	49	50	51	49	45	44	39
55-74 years	5	7	8	6	6	7	9	6
Females
In total	53	52	52	47	61	48	50	53
15-24 years	16	17	17	17	19	14	15	18
25-54 years	34	32	32	27	39	31	32	32
55-74 years	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.4	4.7	4.9	4.8	4.9	4.4	4.5	4.4
15-24 years	10.0	11.0	11.4	12.5	10.6	9.5	10.5	11.9
25-54 years	4.1	4.4	4.4	4.2	4.7	4.1	4.1	3.8
55-74 years	1.5	1.8	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.9	2.1	1.6
Males
In total	4.6	5.4	5.7	5.8	5.2	5.0	5.1	4.8
15-24 years	11.1	12.6	13.3	15.1	11.1	11.0	11.8	13.3
25-54 years	4.3	5.0	5.1	5.2	5.0	4.6	4.5	4.0
55-74 years	1.6	2.3	2.7	2.1	2.1	2.5	3.0	2.0
Females
In total	4.1	4.0	4.0	3.6	4.6	3.7	3.9	4.0
15-24 years	8.8	9.3	9.4	9.8	10.1	7.9	9.0	10.4
25-54 years	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.1	4.4	3.6	3.7	3.6
55-74 years	1.4	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.1