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 2007 and 2008

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 2007 and 2008
	May 2007			May 2008

	In total	Males	Females	I alt[In tota]l	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	42 357	22 059	20 298	36 943	20 272	16 671

Non-immigrant population and descendants	32 352	16 786	15 566	27 555	15 126	12 429

First generation immigrants, total	10 005	5 273	4 732	9 388	5 146	4 242
The Nordic countries	638	365	273	580	318	262
Western Europe else	449	272	177	486	306	180
EU countries in Eastern Europe	462	168	294	785	458	327
Eastern Europe else	1 417	618	799	1 244	573	671
North America and Oceania	100	53	47	90	53	37
Asia¹	4 525	2 271	2 254	3 901	1 985	1 916
Africa	2 004	1 333	671	1 947	1 296	651
South and Central America	410	193	217	355	157	198

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	1.7	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.5	1.4

Non-immigrant population and descendants	1.4	1.4	1.5	1.2	1.3	1.1

First generation immigrants, total	5.0	4.7	5.3	4.0	3.9	4.2
The Nordic countries	1.8	2.1	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.5
Western Europe else	1.8	1.7	1.9	1.6	1.6	1.7
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	2.2	1.3	3.6	2.1	1.8	2.9
Eastern Europe else	5.9	5.4	6.5	4.8	4.7	4.9
North America and Oceania	2.2	2.1	2.3	1.8	1.9	1.7
Asia¹	7.0	6.5	7.7	5.6	5.3	5.9
Africa	11.1	11.4	10.4	9.5	10.0	8.7
South and Central America	5.0	4.8	5.1	3.9	3.6	4.1

¹	Turkey is included.