Table 1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force. By the end of May 2008 and 2009

1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force. By the end of May 2008 and 2009
	May 2008			May 2009			Changes, total 2008-2009

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Changes, total 2008-2009

Registered unemployed, total	36 944	20 273	16 671	68 343	43 883	24 460	31 399

Non-immigrant population¹	27 599	15 155	12 444	50 431	32 292	18 139	22 832

Immigrants registered as residents, total	9 345	5 118	4 227	17 912	11 591	6 321	8 567
The Nordic countries	561	307	254	1 197	765	432	636
Western Europe else	475	297	178	1 156	866	290	681
EU countries in Eastern Europe	776	451	325	4 045	3 293	752	3 269
Eastern Europe else	1 240	572	668	2 046	1 098	948	806
North America and Oceania	89	52	37	133	80	53	44
Asia²	3 908	1 990	1 918	5 999	3 271	2 728	2 091
Africa	1 944	1 293	651	2 699	1 875	824	755
South and Central America	352	156	196	637	343	294	285

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	1.5	1.5	1.4	2.6	3.2	2.0	1.1

Non-immigrant population¹	1.2	1.3	1.2	2.2	2.6	1.6	1.0

Immigrants registered as residents, total	4.0	3.8	4.2	6.8	7.7	5.5	2.8
The Nordic countries	1.5	1.7	1.4	3.0	3.7	2.2	1.5
Western Europe else	1.6	1.6	1.7	3.5	4.0	2.4	1.9
EU countries in Eastern Europe	2.1	1.7	2.8	8.4	9.9	5.1	6.3
Eastern Europe else	4.7	4.7	4.8	7.2	8.3	6.3	2.5
North America and Oceania	1.8	1.9	1.7	2.4	2.6	2.2	0.6
Asia²	5.5	5.2	5.8	7.8	8.1	7.5	2.3
Africa	9.4	9.8	8.6	12.1	13.4	9.8	2.7
South and Central America	3.8	3.5	4.1	6.4	7.4	5.5	2.6

¹	Non-residents included, 516 (2008) and 1 348 (2009).
²	Turkey is included.