AI & jobs · Country profile

Guinea

Lower-middle income Capital: Conakry 34 regions
18%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 792K people.
MODEL141st of 183 most exposed World 21%Lower-middle income 16%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
792K
of 4.5M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
1.5%
67.1K people
People in workILO
4.5M
42% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
5.2%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
7.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$1,877
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
33%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.32
137th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
15.1M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
11%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
79%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
39%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 19%
Men: any exposure 16%
Women: highest exposure 1.3%
Men: highest exposure 1.6%

Women are +3.0 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Guinea 18%
Lower-middle income 16%
Sub-Saharan Africa 15%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
GuineaLower-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.06
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
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

Guinea 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 Guinea