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Panama

High income Capital: Panama City 12 regions
23%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 485K people.
MODEL96th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
485K
of 2.1M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
3.6%
75.9K people
People in workILO
2.1M
41% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
8.4%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
19.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$19,790
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
73%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.50
66th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
4.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
54%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
38%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
66%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 32%
Men: any exposure 17%
Women: highest exposure 5.9%
Men: highest exposure 2.0%

Women are +14.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Panama 23%
High income 35%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
PanamaHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.11
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.14
Regulation & ethics 0.14

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.50 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Panama 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 Panama