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Jamaica

Upper-middle income Capital: Kingston 14 regions
28%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 434K people.
MODEL69th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
434K
of 1.6M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
5.8%
90.4K people
People in workILO
1.6M
46% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
3.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
10.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$8,003
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
90%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.43
93rd of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
2.8M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
26%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
32%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
59%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 38%
Men: any exposure 19%
Women: highest exposure 8.7%
Men: highest exposure 3.4%

Women are +18.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Jamaica 28%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

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

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.43 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Jamaica 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 Jamaica