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Gabon

Upper-middle income Capital: Libreville 9 regions
21%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 140K people.
MODEL117th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
140K
of 674K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
3.6%
24.3K people
People in workILO
674K
36% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
20.1%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
36.3%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$8,263
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
69%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.32
138th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
2.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
8%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
30%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
92%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 26%
Men: any exposure 18%
Women: highest exposure 5.1%
Men: highest exposure 2.8%

Women are +7.9 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Gabon 21%
Upper-middle income 21%
Sub-Saharan Africa 15%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
GabonUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.08
Human capital & labour policy 0.10
Innovation & integration 0.08
Regulation & ethics 0.07

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.32 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Gabon 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 Gabon