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Qatar

High income Capital: Doha 7 regions
19%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 435K people.
MODEL133rd of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
435K
of 2.3M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.9%
65.7K people
People in workILO
2.3M
18% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
0.1%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
0.6%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$72,525
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
98%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.54
53rd of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
3M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
43%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
0%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
99%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 31%
Men: any exposure 16%
Women: highest exposure 4.7%
Men: highest exposure 2.5%

Women are +15.1 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Qatar 19%
High income 35%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
QatarHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.13
Human capital & labour policy 0.14
Innovation & integration 0.13
Regulation & ethics 0.13

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.54 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Qatar 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 Qatar