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

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

Registered unemployed, total	44 364	22 637	21 727	77 109	45 805	31 304	32 745

Non-immigrant population¹	33 224	16 979	16 245	56 956	33 691	23 265	23 732

Immigrants registered as residents, total	11 140	5 658	5 482	20 153	12 114	8 039	9 013
The Nordic countries	674	352	322	1 327	809	518	653
Western Europe else	534	321	213	1 142	754	388	608
EU countries in Eastern Europe	907	490	417	4 027	3 123	904	3 120
Eastern Europe else	1 501	658	843	2 373	1 197	1 176	872
North America and Oceania	95	51	44	157	97	60	62
Asia²	4 744	2 215	2 529	7 016	3 554	3 462	2 272
Africa	2 244	1 397	847	3 299	2 192	1 107	1 055
South and Central America	441	174	267	812	388	424	371

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	1.8	1.7	1.8	3.0	3.3	2.6	1.2

Non-immigrant population¹	1.5	1.4	1.5	2.5	2.8	2.1	1.0

Immigrants registered as residents, total	4.6	4.1	5.3	7.5	8.0	6.9	2.9
The Nordic countries	1.9	1.9	1.8	3.3	3.9	2.7	1.4
Western Europe else	1.8	1.7	2.0	3.4	3.5	3.2	1.6
EU countries in Eastern Europe	2.3	1.7	3.5	8.3	9.3	5.9	6.0
Eastern Europe else	5.7	5.3	6.1	8.3	9.0	7.7	2.6
North America and Oceania	1.9	1.8	2.0	2.9	3.2	2.5	1.0
Asia²	6.5	5.8	7.4	9.0	8.7	9.3	2.5
Africa	10.4	10.3	10.5	14.2	15.2	12.3	3.8
South and Central America	4.7	3.9	5.4	8.0	8.2	7.8	3.3

¹	Non-residents included, 615 (2008) and 1 288 (2009).
²	Turkey is included.