Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019
	2017	2018	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	117	108	110	109	114	98	108	97
15-24 years	39	35	31	40	35	33	37	39
25-54 years	68	65	73	62	69	57	61	51
55-74 years	9	8	7	7	9	8	10	7
Males
In total	68	61	65	63	65	50	60	56
15-24 years	23	20	19	24	20	16	20	20
25-54 years	39	36	42	35	40	29	32	31
55-74 years	6	5	3	4	6	5	8	5
Females
In total	49	47	45	46	49	48	48	40
15-24 years	17	15	12	16	16	17	17	19
25-54 years	29	29	31	27	30	28	29	19
55-74 years	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	2

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.2	3.8	4.0	3.9	4.0	3.5	3.9	3.4
15-24 years	10.8	9.6	8.8	10.8	9.5	9.2	10.3	10.7
25-54 years	3.7	3.5	3.9	3.3	3.7	3.0	3.3	2.7
55-74 years	1.7	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.5	1.8	1.2
Males
In total	4.6	4.1	4.4	4.2	4.3	3.4	4.0	3.8
15-24 years	12.1	10.5	10.5	12.3	10.1	8.8	10.7	10.8
25-54 years	4.0	3.7	4.3	3.5	3.9	2.9	3.3	3.1
55-74 years	2.1	1.5	1.2	1.5	1.9	1.7	2.6	1.7
Females
In total	3.8	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.1
15-24 years	9.4	8.7	6.9	9.2	8.7	9.7	9.8	10.6
25-54 years	3.4	3.3	3.5	3.1	3.3	3.2	3.2	2.2
55-74 years	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.0	1.3	1.2	0.9	0.7