Colombia
In line with what its income predicts · expected 38.9% at its GDP per capita
Colombia ranks 10 of 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: 38.3% of its task time is at least partly delegable, above the world figure of 35.2% and 10.4 points below high-income countries.
| Indicator | Colombia | Rank in region | Highest in region | Region | High income | World | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegability | |||||||
| ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3) | 38.3 | 10 of 25 | Puerto Rico (49.9) | 37.7 | 48.7 | 35.2 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3) | 2.9 | 13 of 25 | Puerto Rico (4.9) | 3.0 | 3.7 | 2.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADIs: expected share of working time delegable | 31.0 | 12 of 25 | Puerto Rico (38.7) | 31.0 | 37.4 | 29.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| Adoption | |||||||
| AI use per working-age adult (index) | 1.14 | 7 of 18 | Uruguay (1.83) | 0.96 | 2.80 | 1.53 | Anthropic Economic Index |
| Context | |||||||
| GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $) | 18,779 | 15 of 25 | Guyana (83,659) | 24,615 | 56,341 | 27,620 | World Bank WDI |
| Informal employment, % of total employment | 56.0 | 12 of 22 | Bahamas (15.5) | 53.4 | 12.5 | 50.2 | ILOSTAT |
Region: the 25 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the atlas (World Bank regions). Delegability rows are employment-weighted means; adoption and context rows are simple means over countries with data. For informality, rank 1 is the lowest. With equal weights inside reported groups, the preregistered sensitivity check, Colombia’s ADI is 36.8%.
Colombia against the delegation divide
Each flag is a country; the dashed line is what GDP per capita alone predicts. Latin America and the Caribbean keeps its colours, the rest is grey. Colombia is in line with what its income predicts.
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Who works in Colombia, and how delegable their tasks are
Service and sales workers and professionals supply 43% of Colombia’s delegable task time while employing 33% of its workers.
Hover a block to read one group. Shade: the group’s ADI, light 10% to dark 85%.
| Major group | Employment, Colombia | World | ADI of group, Colombia | Points of ADI, Colombia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Managers | 5.7% | 3.9% | 81.6 | 4.7 |
| 4 · Clerical support workers | 6.0% | 5.0% | 77.1 | 4.6 |
| 2 · Professionals | 11.1% | 11.2% | 72.5 | 8.1 |
| 3 · Technicians and associate professionals | 7.0% | 6.7% | 73.5 | 5.1 |
| 5 · Service and sales workers | 21.7% | 17.8% | 38.7 | 8.4 |
| 8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 8.8% | 7.6% | 21.6 | 1.9 |
| 6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 5.4% | 21.9% | 19.3 | 1.0 |
| 7 · Craft and related trades workers | 10.5% | 10.8% | 17.0 | 1.8 |
| 9 · Elementary occupations | 23.8% | 15.2% | 11.3 | 2.7 |
Barriers, weighted by its jobs
Its barriers sit close to the world’s: the work mix weighs about the same as everywhere else.
| Barrier | Share of task weight | COL | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical presence | 69% | 72% | |
| Accountability | 24% | 26% | |
| Trust and care | 28% | 26% | |
| Access to systems | 57% | 59% |
Dashed tick: world, weighting the same tasks by world employment. A task can carry more than one barrier.
Delegable work and actual AI use
With 1.14× the world’s Claude use per working-age person, Colombia uses AI about as much as its delegable work would suggest (gap +0.18 standard deviations).
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Formal workers hold the more delegable jobs
Weighting each occupation by its employment in Colombia’s monthly household survey (GEIH, January 2024 to August 2026), formal workers’ task time is far more delegable than informal workers’. The differences come only from the occupations each group holds, since the index rates tasks, not people.
Informal: does not contribute to a pension. Intervals carry the uncertainty of the ratings, not of the survey sample. Source: DANE, GEIH.
| Group | ADI with 95% interval | ADI | Share of employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| All workers | 39.0 | 100% | |
| Sex · Women | 42.8 | 42% | |
| Sex · Men | 36.2 | 58% | |
| Age · Aged 15–24 | 34.5 | 12% | |
| Age · Aged 25–54 | 41.0 | 70% | |
| Age · Aged 55 and over | 34.4 | 18% | |
| Formality · Formal | 51.6 | 44% | |
| Formality · Informal | 29.1 | 56% |
Within its region
Colombia sits between Brazil (39.9%) and Uruguay (38.2%); Puerto Rico leads the region at 49.9% and Ecuador closes it at 29.3%.
| Country | ADI | % |
|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 49.9 | |
| Curaçao | 48.5 | |
| Barbados | 44.8 | |
| Argentina | 43.4 | |
| Saint Lucia | 42.4 | |
| Bahamas | 42.2 | |
| Jamaica | 40.5 | |
| Chile | 40.0 | |
| Brazil | 39.9 | |
| Colombia | 38.3 | |
| Uruguay | 38.2 | |
| Belize | 37.9 | |
| Costa Rica | 37.8 | |
| Dominican Republic | 37.2 | |
| Mexico | 36.8 | |
| Paraguay | 36.2 | |
| Panama | 34.4 | |
| El Salvador | 33.6 | |
| Guyana | 33.3 | |
| Peru | 33.0 | |
| Bolivia | 31.1 | |
| Honduras | 30.9 | |
| Guatemala | 30.3 | |
| Grenada | 29.7 | |
| Ecuador | 29.3 |
Dashed line: regional employment-weighted mean, 37.7%. World: 35.2%.
Espinal Maya, Cristian, and Santiago Jiménez Londoño. 2026. ADI v2026.1: Agent Delegability Index data, code and MCP server. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23552918. Record: Colombia (COL), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/COL
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author = {Espinal Maya, Cristian and Jim{\'e}nez Londo{\~n}o, Santiago},
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