Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018
	2017	2018	3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	117	108	114	105	110	109	114	98
15-24 years	39	35	39	33	31	40	35	33
25-54 years	68	65	66	64	73	62	69	57
55-74 years	9	8	9	8	7	7	9	8
Males
In total	68	61	65	63	65	63	65	50
15-24 years	23	20	23	19	19	24	20	16
25-54 years	39	36	36	37	42	35	40	29
55-74 years	6	5	6	7	3	4	6	5
Females
In total	49	47	49	43	45	46	49	48
15-24 years	17	15	16	14	12	16	16	17
25-54 years	29	29	29	27	31	27	30	28
55-74 years	3	3	4	2	3	2	3	3

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.2	3.8	4.1	3.8	4.0	3.9	4.0	3.5
15-24 years	10.8	9.6	10.4	9.1	8.8	10.8	9.5	9.2
25-54 years	3.7	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.9	3.3	3.7	3.0
55-74 years	1.7	1.4	1.7	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.5
Males
In total	4.6	4.1	4.4	4.3	4.4	4.2	4.3	3.4
15-24 years	12.1	10.5	11.9	10.2	10.5	12.3	10.1	8.8
25-54 years	4.0	3.7	3.7	3.8	4.3	3.5	3.9	2.9
55-74 years	2.1	1.5	1.9	2.2	1.2	1.5	1.9	1.7
Females
In total	3.8	3.6	3.8	3.3	3.5	3.5	3.7	3.7
15-24 years	9.4	8.7	8.9	8.0	6.9	9.2	8.7	9.7
25-54 years	3.4	3.3	3.3	3.1	3.5	3.1	3.3	3.2
55-74 years	1.1	1.2	1.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.3	1.2