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El Salvador

Upper-middle income Capital: San Salvador 14 regions
23%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 652K people.
MODEL100th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
652K
of 2.9M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
3.5%
102K people
People in workILO
2.9M
42% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
3.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
7.8%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$5,767
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
66%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.39
109th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
6.4M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
33%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
31%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
76%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 27%
Men: any exposure 19%
Women: highest exposure 4.0%
Men: highest exposure 3.2%

Women are +7.6 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
El Salvador 23%
Upper-middle income 21%
Latin America & Caribbean 26%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
El SalvadorUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.08
Human capital & labour policy 0.10
Innovation & integration 0.11
Regulation & ethics 0.10

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.39 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

El Salvador 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 El Salvador