Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017	2nd quarter 2017	3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018
	2016	2017	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017	2nd quarter 2017	3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	131	117	116	122	126	114	105	110
15-24 years	42	39	35	39	47	39	33	31
25-54 years	80	68	72	72	71	66	64	73
55-74 years	10	9	10	10	8	9	8	7
Males
In total	79	68	70	72	72	65	63	65
15-24 years	24	23	21	23	27	23	19	19
25-54 years	49	39	42	41	41	36	37	42
55-74 years	7	6	7	8	5	6	7	3
Females
In total	52	49	46	50	53	49	43	45
15-24 years	18	17	14	16	20	16	14	12
25-54 years	31	29	30	31	30	29	27	31
55-74 years	3	3	3	3	3	4	2	3

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.7	4.2	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.1	3.8	4.0
15-24 years	11.3	10.8	9.9	11.2	12.6	10.4	9.1	8.8
25-54 years	4.3	3.7	3.9	3.9	3.8	3.5	3.5	3.9
55-74 years	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.9	1.5	1.7	1.5	1.2
Males
In total	5.4	4.6	4.8	4.9	4.9	4.4	4.3	4.4
15-24 years	12.8	12.1	11.5	12.5	13.9	11.9	10.2	10.5
25-54 years	4.9	4.0	4.3	4.2	4.1	3.7	3.8	4.3
55-74 years	2.3	2.1	2.4	2.6	1.8	1.9	2.2	1.2
Females
In total	4.0	3.8	3.6	3.9	4.1	3.8	3.3	3.5
15-24 years	9.8	9.4	8.1	9.7	11.2	8.9	8.0	6.9
25-54 years	3.5	3.4	3.4	3.6	3.4	3.3	3.1	3.5
55-74 years	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.6	0.7	1.3