Armenia ARM
Tier 3 · Large Diversified Emerging
Armenia stands at 25.6 of 100 on the Optional Work Index, the point at which paid work becomes economically optional1.
Supply measures whether machines can do the work; demand measures whether people can afford to stop. The index is their geometric mean, computed by the same method used for every country.
25.6 / 100
0 · pre-automation baseline100 · work optional
23.5
Supply
can machines do the work
27.8
Demand
can people afford to stop
Data coverage high · 5/5 inputs from primary data (supply 3/3, demand 2/2)
Components
Five sub-indices, fixed weights within each side
Supply
Capacity for machines to do the work23.5
AI Capabilityweight 40%
36.1
Humanoid Roboticsweight 31%
8.9
Labor Market Shiftweight 29%
21.7
AI system progress toward human-level and beyond cognitive performance.
Demand
Capacity for people to stop working27.8
Economic Abundanceweight 60%
27.1
Wealth Distributionweight 40%
28.8
Whether the cost of necessities (healthcare, housing, food, transport, education) is falling enough that work is less required.
Data sources for ARM
which series filled each input
ai_frontier— epoch globalai_adoption— wb wbrobot_density— wb ifrautomation_gap— derived wbunemployment— wb wbproductivity— none missingjob_openings— wb proxycost_healthcare— wb wbcost_food— wb proxycost_housing— wb proxycost_transport— none missingcost_education— wb wbbs_electricity— wb wbbs_water— wb wbbs_sanitation— wb wbbs_ict_affordability— none missingincome_floor— wb wbinequality— wb wblabor_income_share— none missing
Calculated 2026-07-17 16:00:11 UTC · version 3.1.0