Table 1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of November 2007 and 2008. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force

1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of November 2007 and 2008. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force
	November 2007			November 2008

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	38 434	20 624	17 810	45 180	26 585	18 595

Non-immigrant population	29 238	15 703	13 535	33 452	19 600	13 852

Immigrants, total	9 196	4 921	4 275	11 728	6 985	4 743
The Nordic countries	593	332	261	776	483	293
Western Europe else	460	275	185	668	460	208
EU countries in Eastern Europe	512	218	294	1 643	1 224	419
Eastern Europe else	1 294	581	713	1 426	722	704
North America and Oceania	86	51	35	104	58	46
Asia¹	3 933	1 976	1 957	4 485	2 342	2 143
Africa	1 918	1 290	628	2 202	1 487	715
South and Central America	400	198	202	424	209	215

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	1.6	1.6	1.5	1.8	2.0	1.6

Non-immigrant population	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.3

Immigrants, total	4.3	4.0	4.6	4.8	5.0	4.5
The Nordic countries	1.7	1.9	1.5	2.1	2.6	1.6
Western Europe else	1.7	1.6	1.9	2.2	2.3	1.9
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.8	1.1	3.1	3.9	4.1	3.3
Eastern Europe else	5.2	4.9	5.5	5.4	5.8	5.0
North America and Oceania	1.8	2.0	1.7	2.0	2.1	2.0
Asia¹	5.9	5.5	6.4	6.2	6.1	6.3
Africa	10.0	10.4	9.1	10.3	11.1	8.9
South and Central America	4.6	4.7	4.5	4.5	4.7	4.3

¹	Turkey is included.