AI & jobs · Country profile

Brazil

Upper-middle income Capital: Brasilia 27 regions
28%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 28.6M people.
MODEL66th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
28.6M
of 101.9M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
5.4%
5.5M people
People in workILO
101.9M
43% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
6.0%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
14.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$10,713
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
84%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.50
65th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
212.8M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
70%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
26%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
88%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 36%
Men: any exposure 22%
Women: highest exposure 7.4%
Men: highest exposure 3.9%

Women are +13.1 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Brazil 28%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
BrazilUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.14
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.11
Regulation & ethics 0.14

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.50 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Brazil 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 Brazil