At-a-glance summary of AI adoption in social protection worldwide

99 Total Use Cases
48/217 Countries with AI Cases
32 Full Production
12 Scaled & Institutionalised
460 Source Documents

By Social Protection Pillar

Social assistance
56 (57%)
Social insurance
33 (33%)
Labour market programmes
10 (10%)

By Deployment Status

Full Production Deployment 32
Operational Deployment (Limited Rollout) 26
Pilot / Controlled Trial Phase 20
Scaled & Institutionalised 12
Suspended / Halted 5
Design & Development Phase 4
32%
26%
20%

By Implementation Type

Classical ML
60
Deep learning
19
Foundation model
11
Hybrid
9

By World Bank Income Classification

High income
52 (53%)
Lower middle income
19 (19%)
Low income
17 (17%)
Upper middle income
11 (11%)

By World Bank Region

Europe & Central Asia
29
Sub-Saharan Africa
19
East Asia & Pacific
15
South Asia
11
Latin America & Caribbean
10
North America
9
Middle East, North Africa, ...
6

Top 10 Countries by Use Cases

By Confidence Level

Confirmed
89
Likely
10

Recent Activity (Last 12 Months)

03