📈 Which Professions Will Disappear by 2030? Forecast by the World Economic Forum.
According to the January report by the World Economic Forum, the global job market will lose 92 million jobs by 2030. However, experts expect the creation of 170 million new jobs. The overall increase will be 78 million jobs or 7% of global employment.
For example, by the end of the decade, every fifth cashier and every third postal and bank clerk will be "laid off," and the demand for secretaries and graphic designers will decrease. At the same time, the need for specialists in big data and fintech will double, and the demand for UI/UX designers, information security workers, and autonomous transport workers will grow by about one and a half times.
💡 Among employers, 86% believe AI will significantly change their business. AI can potentially replace 28.5% of 2,800 in-demand human skills. Human workers will still be needed, but there will be enough two people instead of four to do some work, for example.
By 2030, 39% of workers' key skills will change. In 2020, expectations were at 57% (the highest since 2016), but many companies have started actively retraining their employees. At the same time, key leadership qualities—analytical thinking, resilience and flexibility, and the ability to manage a team—will remain in demand.
🤖 In 2023, the global robot density reached 162 units per 10,000 employees, twice as much as seven years ago. Since 2020, the adoption of robots has been steadily growing by 5-7% per year. In five countries (China, Japan, the USA, South Korea, and Germany) 80% of all robots are installed. 58% of employers are confident that robots will change their business in the coming years.
Robots will eliminate 5 million jobs but create 11 million new ones (for example, in cybersecurity and data analysis). By 2030, 34% of tasks will be performed by machines, 33% by humans, and 33% jointly (compared to 47% of human-only functions in 2025). The IT and telecom sectors will be the most automated (at 95%), while healthcare and the public sector will rely on a combination of human and technological efforts.
🌎 Developed economies are adopting generative AI faster than low-income countries. Interestingly, in the U.S., demand is primarily driven by individual users, whereas in India, corporate sponsorship plays a significant role in boosting GenAI training uptake.
Although digitalization and AI are the main drivers of change, demographics and ecology also play a role, but their impact varies across regions. Asia will be more affected by technological advances, Europe and North America by aging populations and automation, and Africa and Latin America will focus on youth and creating jobs for the growing working-age population.
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