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Canada

High income Capital: Ottawa 13 regions
37%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 7.6M people.
MODEL13th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
7.6M
of 20.5M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
7.5%
1.5M people
People in workILO
20.5M
47% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
6.9%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
13.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$55,698
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
94%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.71
18th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
41.7M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
76%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
10%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
83%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 46%
Men: any exposure 29%
Women: highest exposure 10.5%
Men: highest exposure 4.7%

Women are +17.4 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Canada 37%
High income 35%
North America 36%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
CanadaHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.17
Human capital & labour policy 0.18
Innovation & integration 0.16
Regulation & ethics 0.21

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.71 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Canada 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 Canada