Unemployment has plummeted, with 96 per cent of men aged between 30 and 49 years currently employed and two in five women now working year round. In 2007, 85 per cent of all Timorese were employed in the agriculture sector; today, that figure stands at 67 per cent of men and 61 per cent of women. Much of this achievement has been underpinned by the strengthening of institutions.