Puerto Rico
4.7 points above what its income predicts · expected 45.2% at its GDP per capita
Puerto Rico ranks 1 of 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: 49.9% of its task time is at least partly delegable, above the world figure of 35.2% and 1.2 points above high-income countries.
| Indicator | Puerto Rico | Rank in region | Highest in region | Region | High income | World | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegability | |||||||
| ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3) | 49.9 | 1 of 25 | Puerto Rico (49.9) | 37.7 | 48.7 | 35.2 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3) | 4.9 | 1 of 25 | Puerto Rico (4.9) | 3.0 | 3.7 | 2.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADIs: expected share of working time delegable | 38.7 | 1 of 25 | Puerto Rico (38.7) | 31.0 | 37.4 | 29.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| Adoption | |||||||
| AI use per working-age adult (index) | 1.70 | 3 of 18 | Uruguay (1.83) | 0.96 | 2.80 | 1.53 | Anthropic Economic Index |
| Context | |||||||
| GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $) | 44,603 | 2 of 25 | Guyana (83,659) | 24,615 | 56,341 | 27,620 | World Bank WDI |
| Informal employment, % of total employment | – | – | 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, Puerto Rico’s ADI is 49.3%.
Puerto Rico 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. Puerto Rico is 4.7 points above what its income predicts.
Balam Labs · Agent Delegability Index v2026.1 · balamlabs.org/adi
Who works in Puerto Rico, and how delegable their tasks are
Clerical support workers and professionals supply 52% of Puerto Rico’s delegable task time while employing 34% of its workers.
Hover a block to read one group. Shade: the group’s ADI, light 10% to dark 85%.
| Major group | Employment, Puerto Rico | World | ADI of group, Puerto Rico | Points of ADI, Puerto Rico |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Managers | 7.3% | 3.9% | 82.9 | 6.0 |
| 4 · Clerical support workers | 16.9% | 5.0% | 78.9 | 13.3 |
| 2 · Professionals | 17.4% | 11.2% | 71.2 | 12.4 |
| 3 · Technicians and associate professionals | 11.5% | 6.7% | 68.0 | 7.8 |
| 5 · Service and sales workers | 22.5% | 17.8% | 28.6 | 6.4 |
| 8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 8.0% | 7.6% | 13.3 | 1.1 |
| 6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 0.8% | 21.9% | 17.1 | 0.1 |
| 7 · Craft and related trades workers | 12.5% | 10.8% | 18.4 | 2.3 |
| 9 · Elementary occupations | 3.1% | 15.2% | 13.1 | 0.4 |
Puerto Rico reports employment at one ISCO digit, so occupations inside each major group carry equal weight.
Barriers, weighted by its jobs
The largest gap with the world is physical presence: 57% of task weight against 72% worldwide, a lighter brake on agents.
| Barrier | Share of task weight | PRI | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical presence | 57% | 72% | |
| Accountability | 29% | 26% | |
| Trust and care | 33% | 26% | |
| Access to systems | 64% | 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 1.70× the world’s Claude use per working-age person, Puerto Rico has more delegable work than its AI use would suggest (gap +0.94 standard deviations).
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Within its region
Puerto Rico leads Latin America and the Caribbean at 49.9%, ahead of Curaçao (48.5%); Ecuador closes the region 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: Puerto Rico (PRI), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/PRI
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author = {Espinal Maya, Cristian and Jim{\'e}nez Londo{\~n}o, Santiago},
year = {2026},
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