Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd quarter 2020	4th quarter 2020
	2019	2020	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd quarter 2020	4th quarter 2020
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	106	130	109	108	103	129	153	137
15-24 years	37	42	37	35	37	48	48	38
25-54 years	60	75	62	66	56	72	89	85
55-74 years	9	13	10	7	10	9	17	14
Males
In total	60	73	59	65	57	72	85	77
15-24 years	20	23	19	21	21	25	25	21
25-54 years	34	42	34	39	30	41	48	49
55-74 years	6	8	6	5	6	6	11	8
Females
In total	46	58	50	43	46	57	68	59
15-24 years	17	19	18	14	16	23	22	17
25-54 years	26	33	28	27	26	31	40	36
55-74 years	3	5	4	2	4	3	6	6

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	3.7	4.6	3.8	3.8	3.6	4.6	5.4	4.8
15-24 years	9.9	11.5	9.5	9.4	10.1	12.8	12.4	10.6
25-54 years	3.2	4.0	3.3	3.5	2.9	3.8	4.7	4.5
55-74 years	1.5	2.2	1.8	1.2	1.8	1.6	2.9	2.4
Males
In total	4.0	4.8	3.9	4.3	3.8	4.8	5.6	5.1
15-24 years	10.4	12.1	9.3	10.8	11.2	12.9	12.8	11.3
25-54 years	3.4	4.2	3.4	3.9	3.0	4.1	4.9	4.8
55-74 years	1.9	2.4	1.9	1.4	1.8	2.0	3.4	2.5
Females
In total	3.4	4.3	3.7	3.3	3.5	4.3	5.1	4.5
15-24 years	9.5	10.8	9.7	7.8	8.9	12.5	11.9	9.8
25-54 years	2.9	3.7	3.1	3.1	2.9	3.5	4.5	4.1
55-74 years	1.0	1.9	1.6	0.8	1.7	1.2	2.3	2.2