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 2006 and 2007

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 2006 and 2007

	May 2006			May 2007

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	60 595	32 035	28 560	42 357	22 059	20 298

Non-immigrant population and descendants	47 484	25 001	22 483	32 354	16 787	15 567

First generation immigrants, total	13 111	7 034	6 077	10 003	5 272	4 731
The Nordic countries	939	524	415	642	366	276
Western Europe else	583	349	234	450	273	177
New EU countries in Eastern Europe¹	402	128	274	390	145	245
Eastern Europe else	2 119	938	1 181	1 488	641	847
North America and Oceania	150	83	67	101	53	48
Asia²	5 961	3 140	2 821	4 523	2 270	2 253
Africa	2 340	1 581	759	1 999	1 331	668
South and Central America	617	291	326	410	193	217

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	2.5	2.5	2.5	1.7	1.7	1.8

Non-immigrant population and descendants	2.1	2.1	2.1	1.4	1.4	1.5

First generation immigrants, total	7.3	7.1	7.5	5.0	4.8	5.4
The Nordic countries	2.8	3.1	2.5	1.9	2.1	1.6
Western Europe else	2.5	2.4	2.7	1.8	1.7	1.9
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	3.3	2.0	4.8	2.1	1.3	3.5
Eastern Europe else	8.9	8.3	9.5	5.8	5.3	6.3
North America and Oceania	3.5	3.6	3.5	2.2	2.1	2.3
Asia¹	10.0	9.5	10.6	7.1	6.5	7.8
Africa	14.7	15.3	13.4	11.2	11.5	10.5
South and Central America	7.8	7.5	8.3	5.0	4.8	5.2

¹	EU-status per 01.05. 2004.
²	Turkey is included.