Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020
	2018	2019	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	108	106	98	108	97	109	108	103
15-24 years	35	37	33	37	39	37	35	37
25-54 years	65	60	57	61	51	62	66	56
55-74 years	8	9	8	10	7	10	7	10
Males
In total	61	60	50	60	56	59	65	57
15-24 years	20	20	16	20	20	19	21	21
25-54 years	36	34	29	32	31	34	39	30
55-74 years	5	6	5	8	5	6	5	6
Females
In total	47	46	48	48	40	50	43	46
15-24 years	15	17	17	17	19	18	14	16
25-54 years	29	26	28	29	19	28	27	26
55-74 years	3	3	3	2	2	4	2	4

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	3.8	3.7	3.5	3.9	3.4	3.8	3.8	3.6
15-24 years	9.6	9.9	9.2	10.3	10.7	9.5	9.4	10.1
25-54 years	3.5	3.2	3.0	3.3	2.7	3.3	3.5	2.9
55-74 years	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.8	1.2	1.8	1.2	1.8
Males
In total	4.1	4.0	3.4	4.0	3.8	3.9	4.3	3.8
15-24 years	10.5	10.4	8.8	10.7	10.8	9.3	10.8	11.2
25-54 years	3.7	3.4	2.9	3.3	3.1	3.4	3.9	3.0
55-74 years	1.5	1.9	1.7	2.6	1.7	1.9	1.4	1.8
Females
In total	3.6	3.4	3.7	3.7	3.1	3.7	3.3	3.5
15-24 years	8.7	9.5	9.7	9.8	10.6	9.7	7.8	8.9
25-54 years	3.3	2.9	3.2	3.2	2.2	3.1	3.1	2.9
55-74 years	1.2	1.0	1.2	0.9	0.7	1.6	0.8	1.7