EU
Italy
~32%
Work in exposed occupations
~7.67 m · estimate · 2025
6.2%
Unemployment
+0.2 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
20.3%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
1.5%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
67.6%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
16%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.62
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
24.1 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
ItalyEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Italy
- 50Not exposed
- 18Minimal
- 5Low
- 11Medium
- 8High
- 8Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+0.6%
Change 2025→2035
7.24 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
7.09 m
Replacement demand
+159 k
Expansion
- Information and communications technology professionals+27.9%
- Personal care workers+24.8%
- Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport+21.7%
- Business and administration professionals+21.7%
- General and keyboard clerks+14.1%
- Refuse workers and other elementary workers+14.0%
- Customer services clerks−16.6%
- Handicraft and printing workers−18.6%
- Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers−25.2%
- Other clerical support workers−27.3%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−34.5%
- Street and related sales and service workers−43.7%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
18%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
38%
of skills will change
global: 39%
96%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.