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Afghanistan

Low income Capital: Kabul 34 regions
12%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 963K people.
MODEL174th of 183 most exposed World 21%Low income 13%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
963K
of 8.2M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
0.6%
52.3K people
People in workILO
8.2M
6% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
13.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
16.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$417
US$, 2024
Internet usersWORLD BANK
16%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
—
PopulationWORLD BANK
43.8M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
11%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
82%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
26%

Women and men

MODEL

Based on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).

Women: any exposure 7%
Men: any exposure 12%
Women: highest exposure 0.3%
Men: highest exposure 0.7%

Men are +4.8 pts more exposed here. Women’s jobs are concentrated in less-exposed work such as agriculture and care.

How it compares

MODEL
Afghanistan 12%
Low income 13%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
AfghanistanLow income average
Digital infrastructure 0.05
Human capital & labour policy 0.05
Innovation & integration —
Regulation & ethics 0.04

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of — (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Afghanistan is highlighted. The other dots are all countries with both measures.

Sources: ILO modelled estimates 2025 · World Bank WDI · IMF AIPI · Anthropic Economic Index · Wikidata · Natural Earth. How the estimates are made.

Regions of Afghanistan