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Kuwait

High income Capital: Kuwait City 6 regions
20%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 584K people.
MODEL125th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
584K
of 3M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.6%
78.3K people
People in workILO
3M
23% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
2.2%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
15.1%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$32,312
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
100%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.46
84th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
4.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
52%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
2%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
100%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 33%
Men: any exposure 16%
Women: highest exposure 4.8%
Men: highest exposure 2.0%

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

How it compares

MODEL
Kuwait 20%
High income 35%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
KuwaitHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.12
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.11
Regulation & ethics 0.12

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.46 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Kuwait 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 Kuwait