Subsistence livestock farmers
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.22
- Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical condition17
- Breeding animals and helping with animal births14
- Cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock14
- Herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies14
- Raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them14
- Making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household14
- Slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale11
- Building and maintaining houses and other shelters10
- Carrying out some processing of animal products9
- Grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool9
- Fetching water and gathering firewood8
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.(22)
- Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical condition(17)
- Breeding animals and helping with animal births(14)
- Cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock(14)
- Herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies(14)
- Raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them(14)
- Making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household(14)
- Slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale(11)
- Building and maintaining houses and other shelters(10)
- Carrying out some processing of animal products(9)
- Grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool(9)
- Fetching water and gathering firewood(8)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 13.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
- • Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical condition
- • Fetching water and gathering firewood
- • Grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland3,810
- Denmark3,077
- Norway2,863
- Luxembourg2,596
- Ireland2,457
- EU272,404
- Germany2,358
- Sweden2,193
- Finland2,149
- Italy2,137
- Netherlands2,083
- France1,931
- Spain1,780
- Slovenia1,689
- Malta1,516
- Greece1,475
- Latvia1,454
- Estonia1,427
- Poland1,425
- Lithuania1,398
- Czechia1,365
- Croatia1,348
- Romania1,348
- Cyprus1,311
- Slovakia1,189
- Portugal1,137
- Hungary1,120
- Bulgaria777
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Subsistence farmers, fishers, hunters and gatherers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
No Cedefop projection for this country (Cedefop does not model the United Kingdom).
Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?