AI & jobs · Country profile

Mongolia

Upper-middle income Capital: Ulaanbaatar 22 regions
22%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 301K people.
MODEL105th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
301K
of 1.4M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.7%
36.7K people
People in workILO
1.4M
44% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
5.2%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
11.7%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$7,108
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
85%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.48
74th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
3.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
69%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
38%
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 29%
Men: any exposure 17%
Women: highest exposure 4.0%
Men: highest exposure 1.6%

Women are +12.5 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Mongolia 22%
Upper-middle income 21%
East Asia & Pacific 21%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
MongoliaUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.13
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.10
Regulation & ethics 0.12

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

Exposure vs preparedness

Mongolia 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 Mongolia