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

Gulf

Province PG-GPK Largest city: Kerema
18%
of jobs here are estimated to be exposed to generative AI, below the national 19% (−1.6 pts).
MODEL16th of 20 regions9,546 exposed workers

Key numbers

PopulationWIKIDATA
158K
Share of national populationWIKIDATA
1.5%
19th largest of 20
People in workMODEL
53.7K
national total × population share
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
1.8%
national 2.0%
Area
34.6K km²
5 people per km²
Settlement patternMODEL
Rural
4% live in major cities
Largest city
Kerema
5,646 (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.

Gulf Papua New Guinea
Agriculture 44.7%
Retail & wholesale 30.5%
Education 6.3%
Construction 3.8%
Business services 2.4%
Transport & logistics 2.2%
Other services 2.1%
Mining 2.1%
Public admin 1.9%
Health & care 1.6%
Manufacturing 1.1%
Hospitality 0.5%
Finance 0.4%
Utilities 0.3%
ICT & software 0.1%

Exposed workers by sector

MODEL
Retail & wholesale 4,367 Agriculture 1,644 Education 1,474 Public admin 380 Business services 350 Health & care 308 Other services 226 Transport & logistics 183

Ranking in Papua New Guinea

MODEL

By modelled AI exposure, out of 20 regions.

13East Sepik 20% 14Milne Bay 20% 15East New Britain 19% 16Gulf 18% 17Enga 17% 18Sandaun 17% 19Western 17%
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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