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

Myanmar's approximately 22 million workers score a weighted average AI exposure of 3.01/10 - the lowest in this batch and one of the lowest in Southeast Asia. The dominant reason is structural: agriculture employs 38% of the workforce, the highest share in this group of five countries, producing a composition heavily weighted toward low-exposure physical work. But Myanmar's story in 2026 cannot be told through occupation data alone. The February 2021 military coup - which overthrew an elected civilian government and triggered international sanctions, banking system disruption, and over 1.5 million internal displacements - fundamentally altered the country's economic trajectory. Yangon was developing a nascent digital economy before 2021, with Wave Money (mobile payments), CB Bank, and KBZ Pay building fintech infrastructure that reached approximately 30 million mobile subscribers. Internet shutdowns imposed by the military government since 2021 have severely curtailed digital economy activity. The data in this analysis relies on ILO ILOSTAT and Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) Myanmar Labour Force Survey 2022-2023, which itself reflects a disrupted formal economy, and should be read with appropriate uncertainty about current conditions.