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Turkey

Upper-middle income Capital: Ankara 81 regions
26%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 8.8M people.
MODEL77th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
8.8M
of 34.4M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.6%
1.6M people
People in workILO
34.4M
33% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
8.5%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
16.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$18,599
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
90%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.54
50th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
85.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
106%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
24%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
89%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 31%
Men: any exposure 23%
Women: highest exposure 5.9%
Men: highest exposure 3.9%

Women are +8.2 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Turkey 26%
Upper-middle income 21%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
TurkeyUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.14
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.13
Regulation & ethics 0.13

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.54 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Turkey 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 Turkey