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Mar 2017 According to a survey carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers, nearly 32% of jobs in the financial sector and the insurance sector in particular would be replaced by robots in the next 15 years in the United Kingdom.
Employment in the transportation and storage sector would be the most affected by automation at 56%. Manufacturing and sales (wholesale and retail) follow with respectively 46% and 44%. Education and health would be the least affected fields by this wave of robotization with 9% for the first and 17% for the second.
In total, 20% of British jobs would be automated by 2030. This proportion would be higher in the United States (38%), in Germany (35%) and in Japan (21%).
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