Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019
	2017	2018	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	117	108	105	110	109	114	98	108
15-24 years	39	35	33	31	40	35	33	37
25-54 years	68	65	64	73	62	69	57	61
55-74 years	9	8	8	7	7	9	8	10
Males
In total	68	61	63	65	63	65	50	60
15-24 years	23	20	19	19	24	20	16	20
25-54 years	39	36	37	42	35	40	29	32
55-74 years	6	5	7	3	4	6	5	8
Females
In total	49	47	43	45	46	49	48	48
15-24 years	17	15	14	12	16	16	17	17
25-54 years	29	29	27	31	27	30	28	29
55-74 years	3	3	2	3	2	3	3	2

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.2	3.8	3.8	4.0	3.9	4.0	3.5	3.9
15-24 years	10.8	9.6	9.1	8.8	10.8	9.5	9.2	10.3
25-54 years	3.7	3.5	3.5	3.9	3.3	3.7	3.0	3.3
55-74 years	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.5	1.8
Males
In total	4.6	4.1	4.3	4.4	4.2	4.3	3.4	4.0
15-24 years	12.1	10.5	10.2	10.5	12.3	10.1	8.8	10.7
25-54 years	4.0	3.7	3.8	4.3	3.5	3.9	2.9	3.3
55-74 years	2.1	1.5	2.2	1.2	1.5	1.9	1.7	2.6
Females
In total	3.8	3.6	3.3	3.5	3.5	3.7	3.7	3.7
15-24 years	9.4	8.7	8.0	6.9	9.2	8.7	9.7	9.8
25-54 years	3.4	3.3	3.1	3.5	3.1	3.3	3.2	3.2
55-74 years	1.1	1.2	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.3	1.2	0.9