AI & jobs · Country profile

Turkmenistan

Upper-middle income Capital: Ashgabat 5 regions
24%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 509K people.
MODEL87th of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
509K
of 2.1M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
3.8%
80.6K people
People in workILO
2.1M
48% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
4.3%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
10.0%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$6,540
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
18%
of population
PopulationWORLD BANK
7.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
20%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
28%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
47%

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 18%
Women: highest exposure 5.6%
Men: highest exposure 2.1%

Women are +12.9 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Turkmenistan 24%
Upper-middle income 21%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

Sources: ILO modelled estimates 2025 · World Bank WDI · IMF AIPI · Anthropic Economic Index · Wikidata · Natural Earth. How the estimates are made.

Regions of Turkmenistan