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Appendix table 2. Working-age population, persons who had been unemployed during the year and their share of working-age population and the share of persons who had been unemployed for the whole year among the unemployed by region in 2016

Region	Population aged 18 to 64, number	Persons who had been unemployed during the year, number 1)	Persons who had been unemployed for the whole year, number	Persons who had been unemployed during the year among the population aged 18 to 64, %	Share of persons who had been unemployed for the whole year of the unemployed, %
Central Finland	162,129	39,365	7,912	24.3	20.1
Central Ostrobothnia	38,465	7,288	927	18.9	12.7
Etelä-Savo	82,762	19,157	2,919	23.1	15.2
Kainuu	42,548	10,561	1,336	24.8	12.7
Kanta-Häme	99,811	19,626	3,108	19.7	15.8
Kymenlaakso	101,186	24,608	4,632	24.3	18.8
Lapland	105,101	26,687	3,897	25.4	14.6
North Karelia	95,624	24,793	4,218	25.9	17.0
North Ostrobothnia	238,863	55,425	8,284	23.2	14.9
Ostrobothnia	104,044	17,864	2,306	17.2	12.9
Pirkanmaa	305,509	68,527	14,330	22.4	20.9
Pohjois-Savo	145,032	30,477	5,061	21.0	16.6
Päijät-Häme	115,465	27,548	5,684	23.9	20.6
Satakunta	125,296	30,073	4,254	24.0	14.1
South Karelia	75,243	17,900	2,972	23.8	16.6
South Ostrobothnia	107,432	20,862	1,993	19.4	9.6
Uusimaa	1,036,679	179,738	37,983	17.3	21.1
Varsinais-Suomi	282,918	58,968	10,198	20.8	17.3
Åland	17,310	1,396	83	8.1	5.9
Whole country	3,281,417	680,863	122,097	20.7	17.9

1) The number of all unemployed persons aged 15 to 64 has been proportioned to the number of working-age persons (aged 18 to 64) because there was relatively few unemployed persons aged under 18 during the year, 1,105 persons, which is 0.2 per cent of all persons who had been unemployed during the year.

Source: Employment Statistics, Statistics Finland

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Updated 26.5.2017