AI Job Atlas
AI & jobs · Sector

Electricity, gas, water & waste

26%
of this sector’s 32.4M jobs worldwide are exposed to generative AI, about 8.3M people.
MODELAll sectors: 21%

Key numbers

Jobs worldwideILO
32.4M
0.9% of all jobs
Exposed workersMODEL
8.3M
1.1% of all exposed
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
5.1%
1.7M people
Women’s shareILO
21%
of the sector’s jobs

By income level

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In most sectors exposure rises with income, because more of the sector’s jobs are clerical, technical or professional.

High income 34%
Upper-middle income 22%
Lower-middle income 20%
Low income 17%

Most exposed

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Share of the sector’s jobs exposed.

1Japan 47% 2Macao 42% 3Luxembourg 40% 4Taiwan 40% 5Switzerland 39% 6Singapore 39% 7Germany 39% 8New Zealand 38% 9Netherlands 38% 10Montenegro 38%

Most exposed workers

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1China 1.6M 2United States 816K 3India 754K 4Russian Federation 687K 5Germany 273K 6Indonesia 211K 7Brazil 209K 8France 175K 9Egypt 156K 10United Kingdom 154K

Biggest employer (share of jobs)

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1Trinidad and Tobago 4.8% 2Belarus 4.1% 3Maldives 3.3% 4Georgia 3.3% 5North Macedonia 3.2% 6Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.2% 7Russian Federation 3.1% 8Montenegro 3.0% 9São Tomé and Principe 2.9% 10Croatia 2.8%

Other sectors

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Finance 56% ICT & software 44% Education 44% Public admin 43% Health & care 41% Business services 36% Retail & wholesale 29% Hospitality 23% Other services 22% Transport & logistics 19% Manufacturing 15% Mining 13% Construction 10% Agriculture 7%

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