AI & jobs · Country profile

Chile

High income Capital: Santiago 16 regions
28%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 2.6M people.
MODEL67th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
2.6M
of 9.4M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.1%
382K people
People in workILO
9.4M
43% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
9.0%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
21.6%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$17,995
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
96%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.59
39th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
19.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
110%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
21%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
89%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 34%
Men: any exposure 24%
Women: highest exposure 5.0%
Men: highest exposure 3.4%

Women are +9.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Chile 28%
High income 35%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
ChileHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.15
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.12
Regulation & ethics 0.17

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.59 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Chile 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 Chile