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Turkey Labour Market Visualizer

Exploring occupation categories across jobs in Turkey. Each rectangle's area = total employment. Colour = selected metric. Employment from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) Household Labour Force Survey (2025 annual results, ~32.6M employed), wages informed by TÜİK's Structure of Earnings Survey and the January 2025 national minimum wage (gross ₺26,006/month). Occupations grouped by broad ISCO/NACE-aligned sector. AI exposure scores generated via LLM, calibrated for Turkey's economy. Click any tile for detail.

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Total jobs:
Unemployment rate (2025): 8.3%
Informal employment: ~25%
National minimum wage: ₺26,006/mo gross
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 (Turkey adaptation)
You are an expert analyst evaluating how exposed different occupations in Turkey are to AI and digital automation. You will be given a description of an occupation from Turkey'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 in Turkey over the next 5-10 years? Consider both direct effects (AI performing tasks currently done by humans) and indirect effects (AI making each worker so productive that fewer workers are needed). Account for Turkey-specific factors: an estimated 25% of employment is informal, concentrated in agriculture, construction, small trade (esnaf) and domestic work, where digital tooling barely reaches; Turkey is a top-tier global manufacturing exporter in textiles, automotive (Bursa/Kocaeli) and white goods (Arçelik, Vestel), with growing but partial factory automation; tourism is a pillar sector employing over 2 million in hospitality and food service, work that is inherently in-person; Istanbul has a fast-growing startup and outsourced-software scene that is highly AI-exposed; persistently high inflation means nominal wage figures should be read in year-specific context, not real purchasing power; and Turkey's strategic position bridging Europe, Asia and the Middle East drives a large logistics and transport workforce. A key signal is whether the job's work product is fundamentally digital. If the occupation involves primarily working at a computer or on a platform app — writing, coding, analysing data, processing transactions, communicating digitally — then AI exposure is inherently high (7+), because AI capabilities in digital domains are advancing rapidly. Conversely, occupations requiring physical presence, manual dexterity, fieldwork, or real-time human interaction in the physical world have a natural barrier, and this barrier is reinforced in Turkey by a large informal, cash-based, physically-delivered service economy (esnaf shopkeepers, tea-garden waiters, bazaar traders) where digital transformation adoption still lags formal, salaried employment. Use these anchors: 0-1: Minimal exposure. Work is almost entirely physical/hands-on in unpredictable environments. Examples: seasonal farm labourer, mason, textile-factory machine operator. 2-3: Low exposure. Mostly physical or interpersonal. AI helps at the margins. Examples: electrician, hotel housekeeping staff, security guard, barber. 4-5: Moderate. A mix of physical and knowledge work. AI meaningfully assists the information-processing parts. Examples: primary school teacher, nurse, pharmacist, agricultural extension officer. 6-7: High exposure. Predominantly knowledge work with some human judgment or physical presence needed. AI tools already boost productivity significantly. Examples: civil engineer, bank officer, lawyer, university academic. 8-9: Very high exposure. Almost entirely computer-based. Core tasks are in domains where AI is rapidly improving. Examples: Istanbul software developer, accountant, call centre agent. 10: Maximum exposure. Routine digital information processing with no physical component. AI can already perform most tasks. Examples: basic data entry, scripted transaction processing. Respond with ONLY a JSON object: {"exposure": <0-10>, "rationale": "<2-3 sentences with Turkey-specific context>"}
Caveat: These are rough LLM estimates, not rigorous predictions. A high score does not predict a job will disappear — Turkey's software and finance sectors show rising AI exposure alongside rising headcount, as productivity gains fuel demand rather than replace it. Turkey's large informal and physically-delivered service economy (agriculture, construction, esnaf trade, domestic work) means the aggregate national AI exposure is considerably lower than in fully formalised, services-dominated economies. Scores do not account for demand elasticity, regulatory barriers, or social preference for human workers.

Frequently asked questions

Answers from the Turkey data

How exposed is Turkey's workforce to AI?

Turkey's workforce averages 2.78 out of 10 for AI exposure, weighted by employment: 8th of the 9 countries covered. 9.7% of jobs are in highly exposed occupations (scoring 7 or more) and 81.3% in low-exposure ones (1 to 3).

Which jobs in Turkey are most exposed to AI?

Software Developers & IT Engineers (9/10) and Call Centre & Customer Support Agents (9/10) are the most exposed of the 45 occupations mapped in Turkey. A high score means AI could reshape much of the work, not that the job will disappear.

Which jobs are growing fastest in Turkey?

Delivery & Courier Riders (+15% a year) and Software Developers & IT Engineers (+14% a year) have the strongest growth outlook. Across all 45 occupations, employment-weighted growth averages +2.04% a year.

Which jobs are shrinking in Turkey?

Call Centre & Customer Support Agents (-6% a year) and Orchard, Vineyard & Cash-Crop Workers (-3% a year) have the weakest outlook of the occupations mapped in Turkey.

Where does the Turkey data come from?

Employment, pay and outlook come from official sources: Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). AI exposure is scored from 1 to 10 for each occupation by a large language model, calibrated for Turkey's economy.