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North Macedonia

Upper-middle income Capital: Skopje 84 regions
29%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 200K people.
MODEL60th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
200K
of 690K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.7%
32.6K people
People in workILO
690K
43% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
12.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
28.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$10,490
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
93%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.48
76th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
1.8M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
55%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
12%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
63%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 34%
Men: any exposure 25%
Women: highest exposure 5.5%
Men: highest exposure 4.1%

Women are +8.5 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
North Macedonia 29%
Upper-middle income 21%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
North MacedoniaUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.12
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.12
Regulation & ethics 0.13

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.48 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

North Macedonia 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 North Macedonia