AI & jobs · Country profile

Western Sahara

1 regions
24%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 57.8K people.
MODEL89th of 183 most exposed World 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
57.8K
of 241K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.9%
11.7K people
People in workILO
241K
22% women

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 21%
Women: highest exposure 8.3%
Men: highest exposure 3.9%

Women are +12.5 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Western Sahara 24%
Middle East & North Africa 24%
World 21%

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

Regions of Western Sahara