AI & jobs · Country profile
Germany
39%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 16.5M people.
MODEL8th of 183 most exposed
World 21%High income 35%
Key numbers
Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
16.5M
of 42.2M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
8.2%
3.4M people
People in workILO
42.2M
47% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
3.7%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
6.9%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$60,496
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
94%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.75
9th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
83.5M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
77%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
4%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
82%
Women and men
MODELBased on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).
Women are +13.5 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.
How it compares
MODELAI preparedness
IMFGermanyHigh income average
IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.75 (0–1 scale).
Exposure vs preparedness
Germany 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 Germany
- North Rhine-Westphalia 39% exposed
- Bavaria 38% exposed
- Baden-Württemberg 40% exposed
- Lower Saxony 38% exposed
- Hesse 40% exposed
- Rhineland-Palatinate 37% exposed
- Saxony 39% exposed
- Berlin 42% exposed
- Schleswig-Holstein 38% exposed
- Brandenburg 37% exposed
- Saxony-Anhalt 37% exposed
- Thuringia 38% exposed
- Hamburg 41% exposed
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 38% exposed
- Saarland 40% exposed
- Free Hanseatic Bremen 41% exposed