Table 1 Registered unemployed by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute numbers and in per cent of the labour force. By the end of November 2004 and 2005

1	Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute numbers and in per cent of the labour force. By the end of November 2004 and 2005

	November 2004			November 2005

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	83 616	47 393	36 223	72 342	39 099	33 243

Non-immigrants and descendants¹	68 293	38 590	29 703	58 068	31 303	26 765

First generation immigrants, total	15 323	8 803	6 520	14 274	7 796	6 478
The Nordic countries	1 394	799	595	1 091	597	494
Western Europe else	926	635	291	760	476	284
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	418	138	280	407	129	278
Eastern Europe else	2 383	1 227	1 156	2 297	1 067	1 230
North America and Oceania	198	96	102	190	97	93
Asia²	6 777	3 796	2 981	6 379	3 444	2 935
Africa	2 502	1 737	765	2 483	1 670	813
South and Central America	725	375	350	667	316	351

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	3.5	3.8	3.2	3.0	3.1	3.0

Non-immigrants and descendants¹	3.1	3.3	2.9	2.6	2.7	2.6

First generation immigrants, total	9.4	9.9	8.7	8.4	8.4	8.3
The Nordic countries	4.2	4.9	3.5	3.3	3.7	3.0
Western Europe else	4.4	4.8	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.4
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	5.3	4.5	5.9	4.2	2.9	5.3
Eastern Europe else	11.2	11.7	10.8	10.2	9.9	10.6
North America and Oceania	4.8	4.3	5.4	4.6	4.3	4.9
Asia²	12.4	12.4	12.3	11.2	10.8	11.6
Africa	17.7	18.7	15.4	16.7	17.4	15.3
South and Central America	10.2	10.6	9.9	9.0	8.6	9.5

¹	Norwegian born to foreign born parents.
²	Turkey is included.