AI & jobs · Country profile

New Caledonia

High income Capital: Noum'ea 3 regions
35%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 41.4K people.
MODEL22nd of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
41.4K
of 117K in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
6.2%
7,219 people
People in workILO
117K
46% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
11.2%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
33.1%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$29,213
US$, 2024
Internet usersWORLD BANK
82%
of population
PopulationWORLD BANK
295K
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
14%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
68%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 42%
Men: any exposure 30%
Women: highest exposure 8.3%
Men: highest exposure 4.4%

Women are +12.9 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
New Caledonia 35%
High income 35%
East Asia & Pacific 21%
World 21%

Sources: ILO modelled estimates 2025 · World Bank WDI · IMF AIPI · Anthropic Economic Index · Wikidata · Natural Earth. How the estimates are made.

Regions of New Caledonia