Will AI replace Statisticians?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
73/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 97% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 26% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 97% of the work
What the job involves
Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(5)
- Report results of statistical analyses, including information in the form of graphs, charts, and tables.
- Develop and test experimental designs, sampling techniques, and analytical methods.
- Identify relationships and trends in data, as well as any factors that could affect the results of research.
- Process large amounts of data for statistical modeling and graphic analysis, using computers.
- Report results of statistical analyses in peer-reviewed papers and technical manuals.
Within reach(13)
- Analyze and interpret statistical data to identify significant differences in relationships among sources of information.
- Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.
- Prepare data for processing by organizing information, checking for inaccuracies, and adjusting and weighting the raw data.
- Present statistical and nonstatistical results, using charts, bullets, and graphs, in meetings or conferences to audiences such as clients, peers, and students.
- Determine whether statistical methods are appropriate, based on user needs or research questions of interest.
and 8 more
Out of reach(1)
- Supervise and provide instructions for workers collecting and tabulating data.
Also called
Mathematical Statistician · Statistical Analyst · Statistician · Statistical Reporting Analyst · Applied Statistician · Biometrician · Data Analyst · Database Analyst
Related jobs
- Biostatisticians75/100
- Mathematicians68/100
- Data Scientists57/100
- Bioinformatics Scientists56/100
- Clinical Data Managers57/100
What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics