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Bahrain

High income Capital: Manama 5 regions
20%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 188K people.
MODEL122nd of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
188K
of 934K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.7%
25.5K people
People in workILO
934K
21% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
1.1%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
5.4%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$30,597
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
100%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.52
61st of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
1.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
58%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
1%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
100%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 33%
Men: any exposure 17%
Women: highest exposure 4.8%
Men: highest exposure 2.2%

Women are +15.6 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Bahrain 20%
High income 35%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
BahrainHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.12
Human capital & labour policy 0.15
Innovation & integration 0.14
Regulation & ethics 0.11

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.52 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Bahrain 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 Bahrain