AI & jobs · Country profile

Vietnam

Upper-middle income Capital: Hanoi 63 regions
17%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 9.3M people.
MODEL151st of 183 most exposed World 21%Upper-middle income 21%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
9.3M
of 56.2M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
1.9%
1.1M people
People in workILO
56.2M
49% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
1.5%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
6.2%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$5,066
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
84%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.48
77th of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
101.6M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
38%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
51%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
39%

Women and men

MODEL

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

Women: any exposure 19%
Men: any exposure 14%
Women: highest exposure 2.3%
Men: highest exposure 1.6%

Women are +4.8 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Vietnam 17%
Upper-middle income 21%
East Asia & Pacific 21%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
VietnamUpper-middle income average
Digital infrastructure 0.14
Human capital & labour policy 0.12
Innovation & integration 0.11
Regulation & ethics 0.11

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.48 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Vietnam 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 Vietnam