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AutomationAtlas
A global atlas of how automation exposure differs across work tasks and countries.
The atlas measures work tasks directly, shows how exposure differs across countries, links those tasks to skills, and adds a separate goods-and-trade view for how automation-related technologies may arrive through traded products.
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What the atlas measures
Start with three simple questions.
The site works best when the main objects stay clear: what work looks exposed, how that picture changes once country context is included, and how automation-related goods may show up through trade.
Task exposure
What work tasks look feasible to automate
The country layer measures exposure at the task level and then summarizes it for countries, skills, occupations, and industries.
Country context
How the picture changes once country context is included
The site keeps a simple no-context comparison in view, but its preferred benchmark is the country-aware one built from country-specific task evidence.
Products and trade
How technology may arrive through goods
The products-and-trade layer is a proxy. It separates supporting goods from direct-execution systems instead of treating all automation-linked imports as the same.
Average task exposure
The country’s average level of task exposure under the shared atlas framework.
Substitution vs augmentation balance
Whether exposed tasks lean more toward substitution or more toward augmentation.
Goods-facing automation exposure
A traded-goods proxy for how automation-related technologies may enter through imports.
Headline findings
Three patterns that shape the atlas.
These are the shortest routes into the paper: structure matters, countries differ in meaningful ways, and similar exposure can still arrive through different technology mixes.
Case studies
Start with guided country diagnostics.
The case-study layer is where the atlas becomes more editorial and policy-facing. It uses the same public data as the explorers, but packages it into a simpler country narrative with a few guided interactions.
Coming soon
More country diagnostics will follow.
Zambia and Kenya launch the section first. The same template is intended to expand to India, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States, and China without changing the structure of the site.
Browse case studiesChoose where to start
Open the part of the atlas you need first.
Each page answers a different question. The goal is to make the first click obvious rather than to force everything onto one screen.
Paper and data
Keep the paper, methods, and public files nearby.
The paper gives the full argument. The methods page explains how to read the objects. The data page starts with the codebook and then points to the downloadable public files.
