Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		4th quarter 2015	1st quarter 2016	2nd quarter 2016	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017
	2015	2016	4th quarter 2015	1st quarter 2016	2nd quarter 2016	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	121	132	118	135	134	138	120	124
15-24 years	38	41	32	42	47	41	34	37
25-54 years	75	81	77	83	78	89	76	76
55-74 years	8	10	10	11	9	9	10	11
Males
In total	68	80	64	84	87	77	73	75
15-24 years	22	24	17	25	29	22	20	22
25-54 years	42	49	41	50	51	49	45	44
55-74 years	5	7	6	8	6	6	7	9
Females
In total	53	52	55	52	47	61	48	50
15-24 years	16	17	15	17	17	19	14	15
25-54 years	34	32	36	32	27	39	31	32
55-74 years	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2

Unemployed as per cent of the labour force
Both sexes
In total	4.4	4.7	4.3	4.9	4.8	4.9	4.4	4.5
15-24 years	10.0	11.0	8.8	11.4	12.5	10.6	9.5	10.5
25-54 years	4.1	4.4	4.1	4.4	4.2	4.7	4.1	4.1
55-74 years	1.5	1.8	1.7	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.9	2.1
Males
In total	4.6	5.4	4.3	5.7	5.8	5.2	5.0	5.1
15-24 years	11.1	12.6	8.9	13.3	15.1	11.1	11.0	11.8
25-54 years	4.3	5.0	4.2	5.1	5.2	5.0	4.6	4.5
55-74 years	1.6	2.3	2.1	2.7	2.1	2.1	2.5	3.0
Females
In total	4.1	4.0	4.2	4.0	3.6	4.6	3.7	3.9
15-24 years	8.8	9.3	8.6	9.4	9.8	10.1	7.9	9.0
25-54 years	3.8	3.7	4.1	3.7	3.1	4.4	3.6	3.7
55-74 years	1.4	1.1	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.0