Author/publisher: QS Quacquarelli Symonds
Publication Date: 2026
Focus: An international assessment of how effectively higher education systems, labour markets and economic conditions align the supply of talent with changing workforce demand in the age of AI.
Category: Labour Market
Tags: Skills Alignment; Artificial Intelligence; Graduate Labour Market; Employer Demand Signals; Economic Transformation; Workforce Transformation
Summary: Covering 89 economies, the Index combines measures of Skills Alignment, Academic Readiness, Future of Work and Economic Transformation to examine whether countries can develop and deploy the talent required by AI-led economic change. It finds that strong universities alone do not guarantee workforce readiness: education systems must connect their graduate output more closely to employer demand, while economies need sufficient innovation, industrial capacity and labour-market adaptability to use available talent productively. Europe performs strongly on academic and institutional foundations, while parts of Asia-Pacific show tighter matching between skills supply and employer demand. The report warns that countries unable to retrain and redeploy workers at scale may see labour-market disruption offset potential productivity gains from AI.
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