AI & jobs · Country profile
Bosnia and Herzegovina
25%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 301K people.
MODEL79th of 183 most exposed
World 21%Upper-middle income 21%
Key numbers
Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
301K
of 1.2M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.1%
48.8K people
People in workILO
1.2M
41% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
11.0%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
28.2%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$10,382
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
86%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.43
96th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
3.1M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
46%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
18%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
53%
Women and men
MODELBased on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).
Women are +9.8 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.
How it compares
MODELAI preparedness
IMFBosnia and HerzegovinaUpper-middle income average
IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.43 (0–1 scale).
Exposure vs preparedness
Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tuzla Canton 27% exposed
- Sarajevo Canton 29% exposed
- Zenica-Doboj Canton 27% exposed
- Banja Luka 27% exposed
- Una-Sana Canton 23% exposed
- Central Bosnia Canton 23% exposed
- Herzegovina-Neretva Canton 27% exposed
- Livno 22% exposed
- Trebinje 22% exposed
- West Herzegovina Canton 23% exposed
- Foča 22% exposed
- Brčko 25% exposed
- Doboj 22% exposed
- Vlasenica 22% exposed
- Sarajevo-Romanija 22% exposed
- Posavina Canton 23% exposed
- Bijeljina 22% exposed
- Bosnian Podrinje Canton 22% exposed