High-income countries are most susceptible to AI job displacement than developing and lower-income countriesgettyThey are among the world’s largest knowledge and financial economies, with many pouring and committing billions of dollars into data centers and advancing frontier AI. Yet, according to new research, their workforce populations are the most exposed to the impact of automation.A fresh World Bank report found that 14.2% of jobs within high-income countries are highly amenable to automation, which is more than triple the 4.5% share of jobs within low- and middle-income economies.Does your country make the list? Let’s find out:Which Countries Are At Risk? Using the World Bank’s official high-income economy classification as the best available reference, provides the closest indication of which 47 high-income countries fall under this category and are represented in the report’s analytical sample. (The World Bank has been contacted for comment on which countries from the below list constitute the high-income and AI job risk sample data from their report. At the time of publication, no response has been received. This article will be updated accordingly.) While the World Bank report does not explicitly label the 47 countries used in its sample, using its prior classification of 87 high-income countries gives us the closest indication:Within Western Europe And Nordic Countries AndorraAustriaBelgiumChannel IslandsDenmarkFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceGermanyGibraltarIcelandIrelandIsle of ManLiechtensteinLuxembourgMonacoNetherlandsNorwaySwedenSwitzerlandUnited KingdomSan MarinoMaltaWithin Southern And Eastern Europe BulgariaCroatiaCyprusCzechiaEstoniaGreeceHungaryItalyLatviaLithuaniaPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovak RepublicSloveniaRussian Federation Within North America And The Asia-PacificCanadaUnited StatesBermudaGreenlandPuerto RicoVirgin Islands (U.S.)Cayman IslandsGuamNorthern Mariana IslandsAmerican SamoaBritish Virgin IslandsTurks and Caicos IslandsAustraliaBrunei DarussalamHong Kong SAR, ChinaJapanKorea, Rep.Macao SAR, ChinaNauruNew CaledoniaNew ZealandFrench PolynesiaPalauSingaporeTaiwan, ChinaWithin the Middle East And AfricaBahrainIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesSeychellesWithin Latin America And The CaribbeanChileCosta RicaGuyanaPanamaUruguayAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosCuraçaoSint Maarten (Dutch part)St. Martin (French part)St. Kitts and NevisTrinidad and TobagoWhy Are These Countries Most Exposed To AI?The reason the high-income countries within this category are most exposed is that they dominate the knowledge economy and white-collar job market, including industries such as tech, finance, legal, accounting, and marketing.And these are the sectors that have consistently been identified as at highest risk of automation per Anthropic’s analysis.For example, within the United States, there is a strong concentration of AI firms, tech talent, and hyperscaler spending. At the same time, the U.S. has faced some of the most severe job losses, specifically within tech, this year alone, many of which have been directly linked with job displacement due to AI. As a rule, developing economies today have more to gain and less to fear from AI than richer ones. Less than a tenth of their jobs are susceptible to AI automation, compared with more than a third in high-income economies. Developing countries should leave it to the rich world to agonize over whether AI will one day doom humanity.