AI Job Atlas
AI & jobs · Province in Papua New Guinea

Eastern Highlands

Province PG-EHG Largest city: Goroka
22%
of jobs here are estimated to be exposed to generative AI, above the national 19% (+2.4 pts).
MODEL6th of 20 regions42.9K exposed workers

Key numbers

PopulationWIKIDATA
580K
as of 2011
Share of national populationWIKIDATA
5.4%
6th largest of 20
People in workMODEL
197K
national total × population share
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.4%
national 2.0%
Area
11.3K km²
51 people per km²
Settlement patternMODEL
Urban
7% live in major cities
Largest city
Goroka
39.7K (metro)
Mapped towns & cities
1
Natural Earth places

AI use

The Anthropic Economic Index does not publish usage for this region. Regions below a minimum number of sampled conversations are left out.

Sector mix

MODEL

Estimated share of jobs by sector, against the national mix.

Eastern Highlands Papua New Guinea
Retail & wholesale 40.8%
Agriculture 25.5%
Education 7.9%
Construction 4.9%
Business services 4.5%
Transport & logistics 2.9%
Public admin 2.8%
Other services 2.8%
Mining 2.2%
Health & care 2.1%
Manufacturing 1.4%
Finance 0.8%
Hospitality 0.7%
Utilities 0.4%
ICT & software 0.3%

Exposed workers by sector

MODEL
Retail & wholesale 21.4K Education 6,743 Agriculture 3,438 Business services 2,451 Public admin 2,101 Health & care 1,512 Other services 1,112 Transport & logistics 877

Ranking in Papua New Guinea

MODEL

By modelled AI exposure, out of 20 regions.

3of Bougainville 23% 4Morobe 23% 5Manus 22% 6Eastern Highlands 22% 7New Ireland 22% 8Madang 22% 9Oro 20%
About these estimates. No source publishes AI exposure by region for every country. The model splits Papua New Guinea's real ILO sector employment across regions using population (Wikidata) and density: denser, capital-city regions get more finance, ICT and professional jobs, and rural regions more farming. Totals match national figures. AI usage figures are measured, not modelled. Methodology

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