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Barbados

High income Capital: Bridgetown 11 regions
31%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 43.6K people.
MODEL51st of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
43.6K
of 142K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
5.4%
7,646 people
People in workILO
142K
49% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
6.5%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
18.5%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$28,365
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
70%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.51
63rd of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
283K
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
51%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
19%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
60%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 40%
Men: any exposure 22%
Women: highest exposure 8.1%
Men: highest exposure 2.7%

Women are +18.0 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Barbados 31%
High income 35%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
BarbadosHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.10
Human capital & labour policy 0.13
Innovation & integration 0.12
Regulation & ethics 0.16

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.51 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Barbados 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 Barbados