Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017	2nd quarter 2017	3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017
	2016	2017	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017	2nd quarter 2017	3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	132	117	138	120	124	123	115	105
15-24 years	41	37	41	34	37	44	38	31
25-54 years	81	70	89	76	76	71	68	65
55-74 years	10	10	9	10	11	9	9	9
Males
In total	80	68	77	73	75	70	65	63
15-24 years	24	22	22	20	22	25	22	18
25-54 years	49	39	49	45	44	39	36	38
55-74 years	7	7	6	7	9	6	6	7
Females
In total	52	49	61	48	50	53	51	42
15-24 years	17	16	19	14	15	18	16	13
25-54 years	32	31	39	31	32	32	32	27
55-74 years	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	2

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.7	4.2	4.9	4.4	4.5	4.4	4.2	3.8
15-24 years	11.0	10.3	10.6	9.5	10.5	11.9	10.2	8.7
25-54 years	4.4	3.8	4.7	4.1	4.1	3.8	3.6	3.5
55-74 years	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.9	2.1	1.6	1.7	1.6
Males
In total	5.4	4.6	5.2	5.0	5.1	4.8	4.4	4.3
15-24 years	12.6	11.6	11.1	11.0	11.8	13.3	11.5	9.5
25-54 years	5.0	4.0	5.0	4.6	4.5	4.0	3.7	3.9
55-74 years	2.3	2.4	2.1	2.5	3.0	2.0	2.1	2.4
Females
In total	4.0	3.8	4.6	3.7	3.9	4.0	3.9	3.2
15-24 years	9.3	9.0	10.1	7.9	9.0	10.4	8.9	7.7
25-54 years	3.7	3.5	4.4	3.6	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.1
55-74 years	1.1	1.0	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.3	0.6