Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019
	2017	2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	117	108	109	114	98	108	97	109
15-24 years	39	35	40	35	33	37	39	37
25-54 years	68	65	62	69	57	61	51	62
55-74 years	9	8	7	9	8	10	7	10
Males
In total	68	61	63	65	50	60	56	59
15-24 years	23	20	24	20	16	20	20	19
25-54 years	39	36	35	40	29	32	31	34
55-74 years	6	5	4	6	5	8	5	6
Females
In total	49	47	46	49	48	48	40	50
15-24 years	17	15	16	16	17	17	19	18
25-54 years	29	29	27	30	28	29	19	28
55-74 years	3	3	2	3	3	2	2	4

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.2	3.8	3.9	4.0	3.5	3.9	3.4	3.8
15-24 years	10.8	9.6	10.8	9.5	9.2	10.3	10.7	9.5
25-54 years	3.7	3.5	3.3	3.7	3.0	3.3	2.7	3.3
55-74 years	1.7	1.4	1.2	1.6	1.5	1.8	1.2	1.8
Males
In total	4.6	4.1	4.2	4.3	3.4	4.0	3.8	3.9
15-24 years	12.1	10.5	12.3	10.1	8.8	10.7	10.8	9.3
25-54 years	4.0	3.7	3.5	3.9	2.9	3.3	3.1	3.4
55-74 years	2.1	1.5	1.5	1.9	1.7	2.6	1.7	1.9
Females
In total	3.8	3.6	3.5	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.1	3.7
15-24 years	9.4	8.7	9.2	8.7	9.7	9.8	10.6	9.7
25-54 years	3.4	3.3	3.1	3.3	3.2	3.2	2.2	3.1
55-74 years	1.1	1.2	1.0	1.3	1.2	0.9	0.7	1.6