AI Job Atlas
AI & jobs · Sector

Accommodation & food services

23%
of this sector’s 143.8M jobs worldwide are exposed to generative AI, about 32.8M people.
MODELAll sectors: 21%

Key numbers

Jobs worldwideILO
143.8M
4.0% of all jobs
Exposed workersMODEL
32.8M
4.3% of all exposed
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
2.4%
3.5M people
Women’s shareILO
54%
of the sector’s jobs

By income level

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In most sectors exposure rises with income, because more of the sector’s jobs are clerical, technical or professional.

High income 27%
Upper-middle income 21%
Lower-middle income 22%
Low income 20%

Most exposed

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Share of the sector’s jobs exposed.

1Taiwan 34% 2Japan 32% 3Puerto Rico 31% 4New Zealand 30% 5Switzerland 30% 6Macao 30% 7Germany 30% 8Slovakia 29% 9Montenegro 29% 10Republic of the Congo 29%

Most exposed workers

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1China 4.4M 2United States 2.8M 3India 2.8M 4Indonesia 2.7M 5Brazil 1.4M 6Nigeria 1.4M 7Japan 1.1M 8Mexico 1M 9Thailand 846K 10Vietnam 752K

Biggest employer (share of jobs)

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1Bahamas 17.4% 2Saint Lucia 15.3% 3Belize 10.9% 4Barbados 10.7% 5Malaysia 10.5% 6French Polynesia 10.3% 7Montenegro 10.1% 8Greece 9.4% 9El Salvador 9.1% 10St. Vincent and the Grenadines 9.0%

Other sectors

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Finance 56% ICT & software 44% Education 44% Public admin 43% Health & care 41% Business services 36% Retail & wholesale 29% Utilities 26% Other services 22% Transport & logistics 19% Manufacturing 15% Mining 13% Construction 10% Agriculture 7%

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