AI & jobs · Country profile

Paraguay

Upper-middle income Capital: Asuncion 18 regions
22%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 752K people.
MODEL102nd of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
752K
of 3.4M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
3.6%
121K people
People in workILO
3.4M
42% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
4.8%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
11.7%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$7,027
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
82%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.41
106th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
7M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
38%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
36%
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 29%
Men: any exposure 18%
Women: highest exposure 4.8%
Men: highest exposure 2.7%

Women are +10.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Paraguay 22%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
ParaguayUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.10
Human capital & labour policy 0.11
Innovation & integration 0.10
Regulation & ethics 0.11

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.41 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Paraguay 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 Paraguay