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Pakistan Job Market Visualizer

Exploring occupation categories across jobs in Pakistan. Each rectangle's area = total employment. Colour = selected metric. Employment from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Labour Force Survey 2024-25 (77.2M employed on the 19th ICLS basis, which excludes own-use subsistence agricultural workers), wages from LFS Table 5.4 average monthly wages by major occupational group. Occupations grouped by PSCO-2015 aligned sector. AI exposure scores generated via LLM, calibrated for Pakistan's economy. Click any tile for detail.

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Total jobs:
Unemployment rate (2024-25): 7.1%
Informal employment: ~72%
Federal minimum wage: Rs 37,000/mo
Avg. outlook: job-weighted
Avg AI exposure:
Avg pay:
Occupations:
Formal-sector share:
Declining jobs
negative outlook
Growing jobs
positive outlook
Outlook tiers
Outlook by pay
Outlook by education
View the Digital AI Exposure scoring prompt (Pakistan adaptation)
You are an expert analyst evaluating how exposed different occupations in Pakistan are to AI and digital automation. You will be given a description of an occupation from Pakistan's labour force. Rate the occupation's overall AI Exposure on a scale from 0 to 10. AI Exposure measures: how much will AI reshape this occupation over the next 5-10 years? Consider both direct effects (AI automating tasks) and indirect effects (AI making each worker so productive that fewer workers are needed). Account for Pakistan-specific factors: the economy is roughly 72% informal with limited digital infrastructure outside major cities; physical and manual labour dominates employment (agriculture ~31%, construction ~9%); digital adoption is growing quickly in urban centres through fintech, e-commerce and freelancing; and the IT and freelancing sector punches well above its weight in global export terms. Anchors: 0-1 Minimal. Entirely physical, hands-on work in unpredictable environments. Examples: farm labourer, mason, rickshaw driver 2-3 Low. Mostly physical or interpersonal. AI helps only peripherally. Examples: electrician, plumber, security guard, tailor 4-5 Moderate. A mix of physical and knowledge work. Examples: nurse, police officer, primary school teacher 6-7 High. Predominantly knowledge work. Examples: bank officer, accountant, journalist, lecturer 8-9 Very high. Almost entirely done on a computer. Examples: software developer, graphic designer, data analyst 10 Maximum. Routine digital information processing. Examples: data entry operator, telemarketer, BPO agent Return JSON only: {"exposure": <0-10>, "rationale": "<2-3 sentences with Pakistan-specific context>"}
Caveat: These are rough LLM estimates, not rigorous predictions. A high score does not predict a job will disappear. Pakistan's large informal and physically-delivered economy (agriculture, construction, retail trade, domestic work) means aggregate national AI exposure sits well below that of fully formalised, services-dominated economies. Software developers score 9/10 because AI is transforming their work, yet Pakistan's IT exports could grow as each developer becomes more productive. Scores do not account for demand elasticity, regulatory barriers, or social preference for human workers.

Frequently asked questions

Answers from the Pakistan data

How exposed is Pakistan's workforce to AI?

Pakistan's workforce averages 2.35 out of 10 for AI exposure, weighted by employment: the lowest of the 9 countries covered. 6.2% of jobs are in highly exposed occupations (scoring 7 or more) and 87.6% in low-exposure ones (1 to 3).

Which jobs in Pakistan are most exposed to AI?

Data Entry & BPO Operators (10/10) and Software Developers & Engineers (9/10) are the most exposed of the 80 occupations mapped in Pakistan. A high score means AI could reshape much of the work, not that the job will disappear.

Which jobs are growing fastest in Pakistan?

E-commerce & Online Sales Workers (+25% a year) and IT Freelancers & Remote Workers (+22% a year) have the strongest growth outlook. Across all 80 occupations, employment-weighted growth averages +1.49% a year.

Which jobs are shrinking in Pakistan?

Data Entry & BPO Operators (-8% a year) and Translators & Interpreters (-6% a year) have the weakest outlook of the occupations mapped in Pakistan.

Where does the Pakistan data come from?

Employment, pay and outlook come from official sources: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). AI exposure is scored from 1 to 10 for each occupation by a large language model, calibrated for Pakistan's economy.