AI & jobs · Country profile
Chile
28%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 2.6M people.
MODEL67th of 183 most exposed
World 21%High income 35%
Key numbers
Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
2.6M
of 9.4M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.1%
382K people
People in workILO
9.4M
43% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
9.0%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
21.6%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$17,995
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
96%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.59
39th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
19.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
110%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
21%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
89%
Women and men
MODELBased on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).
Women are +9.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.
How it compares
MODELAI preparedness
IMFChileHigh income average
IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.59 (0–1 scale).
Exposure vs preparedness
Chile 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 Chile
- Santiago 30% exposed
- Valparaíso 29% exposed
- Biobío 29% exposed
- Maule 26% exposed
- Araucanía 26% exposed
- O'Higgins 25% exposed
- Los Lagos 26% exposed
- Coquimbo 27% exposed
- Antofagasta 28% exposed
- Ñuble 24% exposed
- Los Ríos 27% exposed
- Tarapacá 27% exposed
- Atacama 28% exposed
- Arica y Parinacota 28% exposed
- Magellan and the Chilean Antarctic 28% exposed
- Aysén 26% exposed