AI & jobs · Country profile

Hungary

High income Capital: Budapest 43 regions
32%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 1.5M people.
MODEL45th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
1.5M
of 4.8M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
5.7%
271K people
People in workILO
4.8M
47% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
4.5%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
14.2%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$25,907
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
94%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.56
45th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
9.5M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
61%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
8%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
71%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 40%
Men: any exposure 25%
Women: highest exposure 8.0%
Men: highest exposure 3.6%

Women are +15.1 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Hungary 32%
High income 35%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
HungaryHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.16
Human capital & labour policy 0.13
Innovation & integration 0.14
Regulation & ethics 0.14

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.56 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Hungary 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 Hungary