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Papua New Guinea

Lower-middle income Capital: Port Moresby 20 regions
19%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 710K people.
MODEL128th of 183 most exposed World 21%Lower-middle income 16%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
710K
of 3.7M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.0%
73.7K people
People in workILO
3.7M
48% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
2.6%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
3.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$3,020
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
19%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.29
149th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
10.8M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
2%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
71%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
16%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 21%
Men: any exposure 18%
Women: highest exposure 2.1%
Men: highest exposure 1.9%

Women are +2.1 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Papua New Guinea 19%
Lower-middle income 16%
East Asia & Pacific 21%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
Papua New GuineaLower-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.05
Human capital & labour policy 0.05
Innovation & integration 0.10
Regulation & ethics 0.09

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.29 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Papua New Guinea 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 Papua New Guinea