AI & jobs · Country profile

Switzerland

High income Capital: Bern 26 regions
40%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 1.9M people.
MODEL5th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
1.9M
of 4.8M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
7.9%
382K people
People in workILO
4.8M
47% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
4.9%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
9.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$115K
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
97%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.76
7th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
9.1M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
74%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
10%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
86%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 45%
Men: any exposure 35%
Women: highest exposure 9.8%
Men: highest exposure 6.2%

Women are +10.3 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Switzerland 40%
High income 35%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
SwitzerlandHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.19
Human capital & labour policy 0.19
Innovation & integration 0.17
Regulation & ethics 0.21

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.76 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Switzerland 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 Switzerland