AI & jobs · Country profile

Fiji

Upper-middle income Capital: Suva 5 regions
24%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 87.4K people.
MODEL91st of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
87.4K
of 369K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.1%
15.2K people
People in workILO
369K
34% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
5.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
15.2%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$6,642
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
75%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.45
86th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
933K
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
75%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
33%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
60%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 30%
Men: any exposure 20%
Women: highest exposure 5.9%
Men: highest exposure 3.2%

Women are +9.9 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Fiji 24%
Upper-middle income 21%
East Asia & Pacific 21%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
FijiUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.09
Human capital & labour policy 0.13
Innovation & integration 0.11
Regulation & ethics 0.12

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.45 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Fiji 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 Fiji