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Agent Delegability Index · v2026.1 · by Balam Labs
ZMB · Lower-middle income · ILOSTAT 2024, ISCO-08 at two digits

Flag of ZambiaZambia

4.5 points below what its income predicts · expected 27.3% at its GDP per capita

22.8%
ADI · 136th of 146 · 95% interval 19.8–26.1

Zambia ranks 27 of 37 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: 22.8% of its task time is at least partly delegable, below the world figure of 35.2% and 25.9 points below high-income countries.

IndicatorZambiaRank in regionHighest in regionRegionHigh incomeWorldSource
Delegability
ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3)22.827 of 37Mauritius (43.7)25.448.735.2ADI v2026.1
ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3)1.226 of 37Mauritius (3.7)1.43.72.5ADI v2026.1
ADIs: expected share of working time delegable22.128 of 37Mauritius (34.4)23.737.429.5ADI v2026.1
Adoption
AI use per working-age adult (index)0.1413 of 19Mauritius (1.61)0.312.801.53Anthropic Economic Index
Context
GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $)3,74219 of 37Seychelles (30,639)6,68656,34127,620World Bank WDI
Informal employment, % of total employment82.78 of 34Seychelles (8.9)84.112.550.2ILOSTAT

Region: the 37 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa 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, Zambia’s ADI is 22.2%.

Where it sits

Zambia against the delegation divide

Each flag is a country; the dashed line is what GDP per capita alone predicts. Sub-Saharan Africa keeps its colours, the rest is grey. Zambia is 4.5 points below what its income predicts.

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Zambia 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, %ZambiaMauritiusSeychellesMozambiqueBurundiDashed 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 Zambia, and how delegable their tasks are

Service and sales workers and skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers supply 65% of Zambia’s delegable task time while employing 73% of its workers.

Share of employment
Zambia100%
World100%
Points of delegable task time (sum = ADI)
Zambia22.8%
World35.2%

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

Major groupEmployment, ZambiaWorldADI of group, ZambiaPoints of ADI, Zambia
1 · Managers0.6%3.9%80.20.4
4 · Clerical support workers1.1%5.0%80.40.9
2 · Professionals4.4%11.2%57.42.5
3 · Technicians and associate professionals2.2%6.7%65.61.4
5 · Service and sales workers17.1%17.8%45.37.7
8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers3.5%7.6%23.60.8
6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers56.3%21.9%12.47.0
7 · Craft and related trades workers5.3%10.8%17.20.9
9 · Elementary occupations9.6%15.2%10.61.0
What stops the agent here

Barriers, weighted by its jobs

The largest gap with the world is physical presence: 85% of task weight against 72% worldwide, a heavier brake on agents.

BarrierShare of task weightZMBWorld
Physical presence
85%72%
Accountability
24%26%
Trust and care
19%26%
Access to systems
60%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

With 0.14× the world’s Claude use per working-age person, Zambia uses AI more than its delegable work alone would suggest (gap -0.67 standard deviations).

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ADI against Claude use per working-age person, Zambia highlighted01020304050600.050.10.20.5125Claude use per working-age person, world = 1 (log scale)ADI: task time at least partly delegable, %ZambiaSingaporeMozambique

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Peers

Zambia among the four income groups

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

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

Same ADI, different income
Sub-Saharan Africa

Within its region

Zambia sits between Mali (23.3%) and Zimbabwe (22.2%); Mauritius leads the region at 43.7% and Burundi closes it at 14.7%.

CountryADI%
Mauritius43.7
Seychelles43.6
Namibia39.5
Somalia39.2
Cameroon38.3
Gabon34.8
Cabo Verde34.3
Eswatini33.9
The Gambia33.2
Malawi32.5
Botswana32.0
Equatorial Guinea30.8
Ghana30.3
Togo30.0
Nigeria29.6
Kenya29.6
Guinea28.8
Côte d’Ivoire28.4
Benin28.1
Sudan27.9
Angola27.4
Burkina Faso25.5
DR Congo24.3
Chad24.2
Niger23.5
Mali23.3
Zambia22.8
Zimbabwe22.2
Guinea-Bissau22.0
Rwanda21.8
Uganda21.4
Ethiopia20.6
Lesotho20.5
Tanzania19.8
Madagascar19.7
Mozambique17.9
Burundi14.7

Dashed line: regional employment-weighted mean, 25.4%. 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: Zambia (ZMB), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/ZMB

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: Zambia (ZMB)}
}

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