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Agent Delegability Index · v2026.1 · by Balam Labs
RUS · High income · ILOSTAT 2025, ISCO-08 at two digits

Flag of RussiaRussia

In line with what its income predicts · expected 44.8% at its GDP per capita

45.7%
ADI · 36th of 146 · 95% interval 44.8–46.7

Russia ranks 26 of 41 countries in Europe and Central Asia: 45.7% of its task time is at least partly delegable, above the world figure of 35.2% and 3.0 points below high-income countries.

IndicatorRussiaRank in regionHighest in regionRegionHigh incomeWorldSource
Delegability
ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3)45.726 of 41Luxembourg (63.5)47.348.735.2ADI v2026.1
ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3)2.536 of 41Germany (4.4)3.43.72.5ADI v2026.1
ADIs: expected share of working time delegable35.729 of 41Luxembourg (45.4)36.637.429.5ADI v2026.1
Adoption
AI use per working-age adult (index)––Switzerland (4.88)2.352.801.53Anthropic Economic Index
Context
GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $)42,35824 of 41Ireland (131,338)50,48356,34127,620World Bank WDI
Informal employment, % of total employment19.233 of 38Hungary (0.9)11.012.550.2ILOSTAT

Region: the 41 countries of Europe and Central Asia 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, Russia’s ADI is 46.0%.

Where it sits

Russia against the delegation divide

Each flag is a country; the dashed line is what GDP per capita alone predicts. Europe and Central Asia keeps its colours, the rest is grey. Russia is in line with what its income predicts.

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Russia and the other 145 countries: ADI against GDP per capita0102030405060$1k$2k$5k$10k$20k$50k$100kGDP per capita, PPP (log scale)ADI: task time at least partly delegable, %RussiaLuxembourgUnited KingdomAlbaniaMoldovaDashed line, the delegation divide: +7.2 pts per log point of GDP pc (R² 0.71)

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What drives the number

Who works in Russia, and how delegable their tasks are

Professionals and technicians and associate professionals supply 64% of Russia’s delegable task time while employing 43% of its workers.

Share of employment
Russia100%
World100%
Points of delegable task time (sum = ADI)
Russia45.7%
World35.2%

Hover a block to read one group. Shade: the group’s ADI, light 10% to dark 85%.

Major groupEmployment, RussiaWorldADI of group, RussiaPoints of ADI, Russia
1 · Managers4.7%3.9%83.13.9
4 · Clerical support workers3.6%5.0%74.62.7
2 · Professionals28.2%11.2%73.620.8
3 · Technicians and associate professionals14.9%6.7%57.58.5
5 · Service and sales workers15.3%17.8%30.04.6
8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers12.1%7.6%13.01.6
6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers2.1%21.9%17.60.4
7 · Craft and related trades workers12.5%10.8%17.72.2
9 · Elementary occupations6.6%15.2%14.81.0
What stops the agent here

Barriers, weighted by its jobs

The largest gap with the world is physical presence: 60% of task weight against 72% worldwide, a lighter brake on agents.

BarrierShare of task weightRUSWorld
Physical presence
60%72%
Accountability
35%26%
Trust and care
32%26%
Access to systems
64%59%

Dashed tick: world, weighting the same tasks by world employment. A task can carry more than one barrier.

AI use

Delegable work and actual AI use

The Anthropic Economic Index has no usage figure for Russia; it covers 101 of the 146 countries.

Peers

Russia among the four income groups

ADI by income group, Russia highlighted010203040506070Low income 17Lower-middle income 33Upper-middle income 43High income 53Russia

Ring colour: income group. Vertical tick: employment-weighted mean of the row.

Same ADI, different income
Europe and Central Asia

Within its region

Russia sits between Slovenia (45.7%) and Czechia (45.4%); Luxembourg leads the region at 63.5% and Moldova closes it at 31.4%.

CountryADI%
Luxembourg63.5
United Kingdom54.9
Sweden54.8
Netherlands54.8
Switzerland54.0
Ireland52.9
Norway50.9
Germany50.7
France50.7
Belgium50.7
Denmark50.6
Iceland50.3
Austria49.8
Montenegro49.8
Cyprus49.7
Poland49.6
Lithuania49.4
Estonia48.8
Latvia48.7
Portugal48.0
Finland47.6
Croatia47.1
Hungary46.1
Italy45.9
Slovenia45.7
Russia45.7
Czechia45.4
Greece45.3
Slovakia45.3
Belarus45.0
Spain44.5
Bulgaria42.6
North Macedonia42.1
Serbia41.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina38.9
Türkiye38.3
Romania37.7
Georgia34.7
Kyrgyzstan33.4
Albania31.5
Moldova31.4

Dashed line: regional employment-weighted mean, 47.3%. World: 35.2%.

In the atlas
Map of the Agent Delegability Index by countryFiji: 37.1% (rank 74 of 146)Tanzania: 19.8% (rank 143 of 146)W. Sahara: no occupation dataCanada: no occupation dataUnited States: 51.9% (rank 9 of 146)Kazakhstan: no occupation dataUzbekistan: no occupation dataPapua New Guinea: 32.2% (rank 100 of 146)Indonesia: 31.4% (rank 104 of 146)Argentina: 43.4% (rank 48 of 146)Chile: 40.0% (rank 58 of 146)DR Congo: 24.3% (rank 131 of 146)Somalia: 39.2% (rank 62 of 146)Kenya: 29.6% (rank 114 of 146)Sudan: 27.9% (rank 122 of 146)Chad: 24.2% (rank 132 of 146)Haiti: no occupation dataDominican Republic: 37.2% (rank 73 of 146)Russia: 45.7% (rank 36 of 146)Bahamas: 42.2% (rank 53 of 146)Falkland Is.: no occupation dataNorway: 50.9% (rank 11 of 146)Greenland: no occupation dataFr. S. Antarctic Lands: no occupation dataTimor-Leste: 26.5% (rank 127 of 146)South Africa: no occupation dataLesotho: 20.5% (rank 142 of 146)Mexico: 36.8% (rank 76 of 146)Uruguay: 38.2% (rank 68 of 146)Brazil: 39.9% (rank 59 of 146)Bolivia: 31.1% (rank 106 of 146)Peru: 33.0% (rank 96 of 146)Colombia: 38.3% (rank 65 of 146)Panama: 34.4% (rank 87 of 146)Costa Rica: 37.8% (rank 71 of 146)Nicaragua: no occupation dataHonduras: 30.9% (rank 107 of 146)El Salvador: 33.6% (rank 90 of 146)Guatemala: 30.3% (rank 110 of 146)Belize: 37.9% (rank 69 of 146)Venezuela: no occupation dataGuyana: 33.3% (rank 93 of 146)Suriname: no occupation dataFrance: 50.7% (rank 15 of 146)Ecuador: 29.3% (rank 115 of 146)Puerto Rico: 49.9% (rank 19 of 146)Jamaica: 40.5% (rank 57 of 146)Cuba: no occupation dataZimbabwe: 22.2% (rank 137 of 146)Botswana: 32.0% (rank 101 of 146)Namibia: 39.5% (rank 61 of 146)Senegal: no occupation dataMali: 23.3% (rank 134 of 146)Mauritania: no occupation dataBenin: 28.1% (rank 121 of 146)Niger: 23.5% (rank 133 of 146)Nigeria: 29.6% (rank 113 of 146)Cameroon: 38.3% (rank 66 of 146)Togo: 30.0% (rank 111 of 146)Ghana: 30.3% (rank 109 of 146)Côte d’Ivoire: 28.4% (rank 120 of 146)Guinea: 28.8% (rank 118 of 146)Guinea-Bissau: 22.0% (rank 138 of 146)Liberia: no occupation dataSierra Leone: no occupation dataBurkina Faso: 25.5% (rank 129 of 146)Central African Rep.: no occupation dataCongo: no occupation dataGabon: 34.8% (rank 83 of 146)Equatorial Guinea: 30.8% (rank 108 of 146)Zambia: 22.8% (rank 136 of 146)Malawi: 32.5% (rank 98 of 146)Mozambique: 17.9% (rank 145 of 146)Eswatini: 33.9% (rank 89 of 146)Angola: 27.4% (rank 125 of 146)Burundi: 14.7% (rank 146 of 146)Israel: 54.3% (rank 6 of 146)Lebanon: 39.6% (rank 60 of 146)Madagascar: 19.7% (rank 144 of 146)West Bank and Gaza: 36.4% (rank 77 of 146)The Gambia: 33.2% (rank 94 of 146)Tunisia: 31.6% (rank 102 of 146)Algeria: no occupation dataJordan: 36.0% (rank 81 of 146)United Arab Emirates: 43.0% (rank 50 of 146)Qatar: 37.9% (rank 69 of 146)Kuwait: no occupation dataIraq: 36.8% (rank 75 of 146)Oman: no occupation dataVanuatu: 25.5% (rank 130 of 146)Cambodia: 26.7% (rank 126 of 146)Thailand: 33.0% (rank 97 of 146)Laos: 25.9% (rank 128 of 146)Myanmar: 28.8% (rank 117 of 146)Viet Nam: 28.5% (rank 119 of 146)North Korea: no occupation dataSouth Korea: 47.6% (rank 30 of 146)Mongolia: 38.8% (rank 64 of 146)India: 27.8% (rank 123 of 146)Bangladesh: 27.8% (rank 124 of 146)Bhutan: no occupation dataNepal: 34.8% (rank 84 of 146)Pakistan: 28.9% (rank 116 of 146)Afghanistan: 22.9% (rank 135 of 146)Tajikistan: no occupation dataKyrgyzstan: 33.4% (rank 91 of 146)Turkmenistan: no occupation dataIran: 36.0% (rank 80 of 146)Syria: no occupation dataArmenia: no occupation dataSweden: 54.8% (rank 4 of 146)Belarus: 45.0% (rank 40 of 146)Ukraine: no occupation dataPoland: 49.6% (rank 23 of 146)Austria: 49.8% (rank 20 of 146)Hungary: 46.1% (rank 33 of 146)Moldova: 31.4% (rank 105 of 146)Romania: 37.7% (rank 72 of 146)Lithuania: 49.4% (rank 24 of 146)Latvia: 48.7% (rank 26 of 146)Estonia: 48.8% (rank 25 of 146)Germany: 50.7% (rank 13 of 146)Bulgaria: 42.6% (rank 51 of 146)Greece: 45.3% (rank 38 of 146)Türkiye: 38.3% (rank 66 of 146)Albania: 31.5% (rank 103 of 146)Croatia: 47.1% (rank 31 of 146)Switzerland: 54.0% (rank 7 of 146)Luxembourg: 63.5% (rank 2 of 146)Belgium: 50.7% (rank 16 of 146)Netherlands: 54.8% (rank 5 of 146)Portugal: 48.0% (rank 28 of 146)Spain: 44.5% (rank 43 of 146)Ireland: 52.9% (rank 8 of 146)New Caledonia: no occupation dataSolomon Is.: no occupation dataNew Zealand: no occupation dataAustralia: 51.7% (rank 10 of 146)Sri Lanka: 33.3% (rank 92 of 146)China: no occupation dataTaiwan: no occupation dataItaly: 45.9% (rank 34 of 146)Denmark: 50.6% (rank 17 of 146)United Kingdom: 54.9% (rank 3 of 146)Iceland: 50.3% (rank 18 of 146)Azerbaijan: no occupation dataGeorgia: 34.7% (rank 85 of 146)Philippines: 35.3% (rank 82 of 146)Malaysia: no occupation dataBrunei: 46.2% (rank 32 of 146)Slovenia: 45.7% (rank 35 of 146)Finland: 47.6% (rank 29 of 146)Slovakia: 45.3% (rank 39 of 146)Czechia: 45.4% (rank 37 of 146)Eritrea: no occupation dataJapan: 43.7% (rank 45 of 146)Paraguay: 36.2% (rank 78 of 146)Yemen: no occupation dataSaudi Arabia: no occupation dataN. Cyprus: no occupation dataCyprus: 49.7% (rank 22 of 146)Morocco: no occupation dataEgypt: 36.2% (rank 79 of 146)Libya: no occupation dataEthiopia: 20.6% (rank 141 of 146)Djibouti: no occupation dataSomaliland: no occupation dataUganda: 21.4% (rank 140 of 146)Rwanda: 21.8% (rank 139 of 146)Bosnia and Herzegovina: 38.9% (rank 63 of 146)North Macedonia: 42.1% (rank 54 of 146)Serbia: 41.6% (rank 55 of 146)Montenegro: 49.8% (rank 21 of 146)Kosovo: no occupation dataTrinidad and Tobago: no occupation dataS. Sudan: no occupation dataBarbados: 44.8%Cabo Verde: 34.3%Curaçao: 48.5%Grenada: 29.7%Kiribati: 32.5%Saint Lucia: 42.4%Maldives: 43.4%Marshall Islands: 40.9%Malta: 50.7%Mauritius: 43.7%Nauru: 44.9%Palau: 44.3%Singapore: 64.2%Seychelles: 43.6%Tonga: 33.1%Tuvalu: 50.7%Samoa: 34.6%
< 25%25–30%30–35%35–45%≥ 45%No data
Cite this record
Text

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: Russia (RUS), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/RUS

BibTeX
@misc{espinal2026adidata,
  title     = {{ADI} v2026.1: Agent Delegability Index data, code and {MCP} server},
  author    = {Espinal Maya, Cristian and Jim{\'e}nez Londo{\~n}o, Santiago},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {v2026.1},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23552918},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23552918},
  note      = {Record: Russia (RUS)}
}

Static JSON: /adi/v2026.1/country/RUS.json

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