Azerbaijan AZE
Tier 5b · Resource-Driven, Low/Mid-Income
Azerbaijan stands at 21.5 of 100 on the Optional Work Index, the point at which paid work becomes economically optional1.
Supply measures whether machines can do the work; demand measures whether people can afford to stop. The index is their geometric mean, computed by the same method used for every country.
21.5 / 100
0 · pre-automation baseline100 · work optional
21.9
Supply
can machines do the work
21.1
Demand
can people afford to stop
Data coverage high · 5/5 inputs from primary data (supply 3/3, demand 2/2)
Components
Five sub-indices, fixed weights within each side
Supply
Capacity for machines to do the work21.9
AI Capabilityweight 40%
39.4
Humanoid Roboticsweight 31%
8.5
Labor Market Shiftweight 29%
12.2
AI system progress toward human-level and beyond cognitive performance.
Demand
Capacity for people to stop working21.1
Economic Abundanceweight 60%
15.7
Wealth Distributionweight 40%
29.1
Whether the cost of necessities (healthcare, housing, food, transport, education) is falling enough that work is less required.
Data sources for AZE
which series filled each input
ai_frontier— epoch globalai_adoption— wb wbrobot_density— wb ifrautomation_gap— derived wbunemployment— wb wbproductivity— none missingjob_openings— wb proxycost_healthcare— wb wbcost_food— none missingcost_housing— wb proxycost_transport— none missingcost_education— wb wbbs_electricity— wb wbbs_water— wb wbbs_sanitation— wb wbbs_ict_affordability— none missingincome_floor— wb wbinequality— wb wblabor_income_share— none missing
Calculated 2026-07-24 13:30:15 UTC · version 3.1.0