Cambodia AI Job Risk 2026: Which Occupations Are Most at Risk?

Cambodia's approximately 9.5 million workers score a weighted average AI exposure of 3.25/10 - one of the lower scores in Southeast Asia, kept there by an occupation mix still dominated by agriculture at 30% and elementary work at 20%. The story in Cambodia is not a single risk but two distinct threats running in parallel. White-collar workers in Phnom Penh's growing digital economy face AI substitution pressure on clerical and professional tasks. Garment and textile workers - more than 700,000 people and the backbone of Cambodia's export economy at 40% of total exports - face a robotics displacement risk that scores separately from AI but is arguably more imminent. Phnom Penh's digital economy is growing fast, with Wing mobile money serving 3 million users, Grab operating across the capital, and ACLEDA Bank running an expanding digital banking platform. Cambodia's young population (median age 26) and ASEAN integration create real pathways for AI adoption - but the depth of agricultural and manufacturing employment keeps the weighted average firmly in the low range.