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Syria

Low income Capital: Damascus 15 regions
22%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 1.3M people.
MODEL108th of 183 most exposed World 21%Low income 13%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
1.3M
of 5.8M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
4.1%
239K people
People in workILO
5.8M
15% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
13.6%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
33.1%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$1,057
US$, 2022
Internet usersWORLD BANK
34%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.30
146th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
25.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
44%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
39%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
72%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 36%
Men: any exposure 20%
Women: highest exposure 5.8%
Men: highest exposure 3.8%

Women are +16.6 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Syria 22%
Low income 13%
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 20%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
SyriaLow income average
Digital infrastructure 0.07
Human capital & labour policy 0.13
Innovation & integration 0.08
Regulation & ethics 0.02

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.30 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Syria 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 Syria