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Uruguay

High income Capital: Montevideo 19 regions
29%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 488K people.
MODEL59th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
488K
of 1.7M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
6.0%
100K people
People in workILO
1.7M
45% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
7.5%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
25.1%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$25,216
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
92%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.55
48th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
3.4M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
80%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
24%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
96%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 37%
Men: any exposure 23%
Women: highest exposure 8.0%
Men: highest exposure 4.3%

Women are +13.8 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Uruguay 29%
High income 35%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
UruguayHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.13
Human capital & labour policy 0.13
Innovation & integration 0.12
Regulation & ethics 0.17

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.55 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Uruguay 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 Uruguay