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Tajikistan

Lower-middle income Capital: Dushanbe 5 regions
19%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 460K people.
MODEL134th of 183 most exposed World 21%Lower-middle income 16%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
460K
of 2.5M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
1.8%
43.8K people
People in workILO
2.5M
30% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
6.9%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
14.6%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$1,637
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
56%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.37
121st of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
10.8M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
36%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
28%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
26%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 23%
Men: any exposure 17%
Women: highest exposure 2.5%
Men: highest exposure 1.5%

Women are +6.6 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Tajikistan 19%
Lower-middle income 16%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
TajikistanLower-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.07
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.09
Regulation & ethics 0.07

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.37 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Tajikistan 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 Tajikistan