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Mexico

Upper-middle income Capital: Mexico City 33 regions
24%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 14.4M people.
MODEL88th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
14.4M
of 60.1M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.0%
2.4M people
People in workILO
60.1M
40% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
2.7%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
5.7%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$13,889
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
83%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.53
55th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
131.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
48%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
25%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
80%

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 5.4%
Men: highest exposure 3.1%

Women are +10.1 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Mexico 24%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
MexicoUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.13
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.13
Regulation & ethics 0.14

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.53 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Mexico 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 Mexico