AI & jobs · Country profile

Cuba

Upper-middle income Capital: Havana 16 regions
31%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 1.5M people.
MODEL47th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
1.5M
of 4.8M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
5.0%
240K people
People in workILO
4.8M
39% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
1.8%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
4.3%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$9,605
US$, 2020
Internet usersWORLD BANK
70%
of population
PopulationWORLD BANK
10.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
43%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
19%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
77%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 33%
Men: any exposure 31%
Women: highest exposure 5.3%
Men: highest exposure 4.8%

Women are +1.8 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Cuba 31%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

Sources: ILO modelled estimates 2025 · World Bank WDI · IMF AIPI · Anthropic Economic Index · Wikidata · Natural Earth. How the estimates are made.

Regions of Cuba