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Iraq

Upper-middle income Capital: Baghdad 18 regions
23%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 2.4M people.
MODEL97th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
2.4M
of 10.6M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.5%
261K people
People in workILO
10.6M
11% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
15.5%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
32.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$5,410
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
81%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.27
152nd of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
47M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
16%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
27%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
70%

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 21%
Women: highest exposure 5.4%
Men: highest exposure 2.1%

Women are +19.1 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Iraq 23%
Upper-middle income 21%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
IraqUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.07
Human capital & labour policy 0.11
Innovation & integration 0.04
Regulation & ethics 0.06

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.27 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Iraq 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 Iraq