AI & jobs · Country profile

Equatorial Guinea

Upper-middle income Capital: Malabo 7 regions
15%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 104K people.
MODEL158th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
104K
of 676K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.1%
14.4K people
People in workILO
676K
40% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
8.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
15.7%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$6,615
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
63%
of population
PopulationWORLD BANK
1.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
2%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
23%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
72%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 19%
Men: any exposure 13%
Women: highest exposure 3.0%
Men: highest exposure 1.6%

Women are +6.2 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Equatorial Guinea 15%
Upper-middle income 21%
Sub-Saharan Africa 15%
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 Equatorial Guinea