Table 1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of August 2007 and 2008. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force

1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of August 2007 and 2008. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force
	August 2007			August 2008

	In total	Males	Females	I alt	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	48 886	23 619	25 267	44 364	22 637	21 727

Non-immigrant population	37 516	17 968	19 548	33 170	16 941	16 229

Immigrants, total	11 370	5 651	5 719	11 194	5 696	5 498
The Nordic countries	757	365	392	711	373	338
Western Europe else	522	311	211	548	332	216
EU countries in Eastern Europe	518	182	336	917	499	418
Eastern Europe else	1 660	669	991	1 502	661	841
North America and Oceania	96	49	47	98	53	45
Asia¹	4 975	2 364	2 611	4 733	2 210	2 523
Africa	2 380	1 516	864	2 243	1 394	849
South and Central America	462	195	267	442	174	268

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	2.0	1.8	2.2	1.8	1.7	1.8

Non-immigrant population	1.7	1.5	1.8	1.5	1.4	1.5

Immigrants, total	5.5	4.9	6.3	4.7	4.2	5.4
The Nordic countries	2.2	2.1	2.3	2.0	2.0	1.9
Western Europe else	2.0	1.9	2.2	1.8	1.7	2.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	2.2	1.2	3.9	2.3	1.8	3.6
Eastern Europe else	6.9	5.8	7.9	5.7	5.3	6.1
North America and Oceania	2.1	1.9	2.3	2.0	1.9	2.0
Asia¹	7.6	6.6	8.6	6.6	5.8	7.5
Africa	12.5	12.5	12.4	10.6	10.5	10.7
South and Central America	5.4	4.8	6.1	4.8	4.0	5.5

¹	Turkey is included.