AI & jobs · Country profile

Bolivia

Lower-middle income Capital: La Paz 9 regions
20%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 1.3M people.
MODEL127th of 183 most exposed World 21%Lower-middle income 16%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
1.3M
of 6.8M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.6%
175K people
People in workILO
6.8M
46% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
3.0%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
5.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$5,148
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
80%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.38
113th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
12.6M
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
63%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
72%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 23%
Men: any exposure 16%
Women: highest exposure 3.0%
Men: highest exposure 2.2%

Women are +6.6 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Bolivia 20%
Lower-middle income 16%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
BoliviaLower-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.09
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.09
Regulation & ethics 0.08

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.38 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Bolivia 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 Bolivia