Release 2026.2 Updated 20 Sep 2026

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Indicator United States Tier 1 × China Tier 1 ×
Headline
Optional Work Index 26.8
28.3
Supply score 27.5 40.2 ▲
Demand score 26.1 ▲ 19.9
Data coverage 100% 100%
Supply — can machines do the work
AI Capability 36.1 39.1
Ai frontier 42.0 42.0
Ai adoption 120.0 91.6
Humanoid Robotics 26.4 71.4
Robot density 295.0 470.0
Automation gap Gap -0.1% Gap 31.8%
Labor Market Shift 16.6 8.3
Unemployment 4.1% 4.6%
Productivity 2.24% YoY
Job openings 7,271K
Labor slack 61.6% emp/pop
Demand — can people afford to stop
Economic Abundance 26.6 22.6
Healthcare 10.9% out-of-pocket 32.2% out-of-pocket
Education 5.4% GDP 3.9% GDP
Food 2.0% consumption growth 5.1% consumption growth
Basic services elec 100% / water 100% / sanitation 100% elec 100% / water 96% / sanitation 97%
Housing $67,946 $13,793
Wealth Distribution 25.4 15.9
Income floor 83.8% covered 35.6% covered
Labor share 1.34% real wage YoY
Inequality Gini 36.0

▲ marks the highest value in a row. A dash indicates no resolved data for that indicator in that country; component figures are shown in their native units.