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China could lose the most jobs
How many jobs are threatened by automation? The data portal Statista has processed figures from McKinsey in an infographic.
Robot kitchen assistants - they are still at the research stage. Here is the kitchen from the European-funded RIF research laboratory in Peccioli, Italy.
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According to McKinsey data, China has the highest automation potential of the countries surveyed.
© Statista/McKinseyHow great is the potential for job destruction through drones, self-driving cars or machines with artificial intelligence?
For China and India alone, McKinsey analysts estimate the automation potential at around 630 million jobs.
A Japanese insurance company that wants to replace several dozen employees with artificial intelligence was recently quoted frequently in the media. Based on McKinsey figures, Statista calculates that this could even result in the loss of more than one billion jobs worldwide.
In Germany, 20.5 million jobs could fall victim to automation. That would be 48% of all jobs, and by no means all of them simple jobs.
Not all sectors appear to be as obviously affected as transportation by drones or manufacturing by robots. Here alone, McKinsey sees 64% of jobs under threat. In the accommodation & food service sector, as many as 66% of employees are said to be replaceable.
In principle, the consultants state that the risk of automation decreases with increasing complexity. In the business services, scientific and technical services segment - including IT jobs, for example - comparatively few jobs (39%) are under threat.
The VDE also thinks little of alarmism, at least not as far as the jobs of engineers are concerned. On the contrary, it believes that demand is actually set to increase massively, despite or because of smart automation.
A study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) also predicts that around 1.5 million jobs will be lost by 2025. But it also expects 1.5 million new jobs at the same time.
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