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Egypt

Lower-middle income Capital: Cairo 27 regions
22%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 7.5M people.
MODEL104th of 183 most exposed World 21%Lower-middle income 16%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
7.5M
of 33.7M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
3.4%
1.1M people
People in workILO
33.7M
19% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
6.8%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
18.3%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$3,086
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
75%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.39
108th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
118.4M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
38%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
24%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
43%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 36%
Men: any exposure 19%
Women: highest exposure 6.1%
Men: highest exposure 2.7%

Women are +17.0 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Egypt 22%
Lower-middle income 16%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
EgyptLower-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.09
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.10
Regulation & ethics 0.08

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.39 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Egypt 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 Egypt