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Ecuador

Upper-middle income Capital: Quito 24 regions
18%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 1.6M people.
MODEL140th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
1.6M
of 8.7M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.3%
195K people
People in workILO
8.7M
41% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
3.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
8.2%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$7,125
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
77%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.44
89th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
18.3M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
68%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
50%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
63%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 22%
Men: any exposure 15%
Women: highest exposure 2.7%
Men: highest exposure 1.9%

Women are +6.4 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Ecuador 18%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
EcuadorUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.10
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.09
Regulation & ethics 0.13

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.44 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Ecuador 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 Ecuador