Global AI Adoption
by Country

AI adoption varies dramatically across countries. This page shows real per-capita AI (Claude.ai) usage from the Anthropic Economic Index (Aug 2025) — a usage-based measure grounded in observed behaviour, not forecasts.

Countries tracked

With measurable usage

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Top usage index (Israel)

Global AI Adoption — World Map

Two lenses are available via the layer toggle: Claude.ai usage (per-capita observed interactions, Anthropic Economic Index Aug 2025 — availability-biased; China and restricted markets appear grey) and GenAI diffusion (Microsoft AIEI Q1 2026, % of working-age population using GenAI across 147 countries, China included). The two metrics use different denominators and cannot be merged — see Data & Sources.

GenAI diffusion leaders · Microsoft AIEI Q1 2026

United Arab Emirates70.1%

Singapore63.4%

Norway48.6%

% working-age population using generative AI (147-country survey).

China — Proxy Context

Claude layer: grey

Claude.ai is unavailable in mainland China, so it appears grey on the Claude.ai usage layer and is excluded from the per-capita usage index. On the GenAI diffusion layer, China does appear — Microsoft AIEI estimates ~16.4% of working-age adults used GenAI in Q1 2026. Note that Western telemetry likely undercounts domestic apps (Doubao, Kimi, etc.) — CNNIC’s survey implies ~43% penetration. The native-ecosystem figures below use different measurement approaches and denominators and are not merged into either index.

CNNIC · Jun 2025

515M

Generative-AI users

QuestMobile · H1 2025

680M

Mobile-AI MAU

Doubao (QuestMobile) · Dec 2025

226M

App MAU

Microsoft AIEI · Q1 2026

~16.4%

GenAI diffusion (working-age pop.)

These proxies use different measurement methods (government survey, app-market scan, product MAU) and cannot be summed or directly compared to each other. The usageIndex (Claude.ai interactions per working-age capita) and diffusionPct (Microsoft AIEI survey %) use entirely different denominators — do not merge them. See the Data & Sources page for full provenance details.

Fastest-Rising Adopters

Microsoft AIEI · see sources

Countries with the largest GenAI diffusion gains, H1 2025 → Q1 2026. Based on Microsoft’s AI Economic Impact Index (Western telemetry — may undercount domestic apps in some markets). Full source details →

South Korea

25.9% → 37.1%+11.2pp

United Arab Emirates

59.4% → 70.1%+10.7pp

France

40.9% → 47.8%+6.9pp

Ireland

41.7% → 48.4%+6.7pp

Qatar

35.7% → 41.8%+6.1pp

Microsoft AIEI · H1 2025 → Q1 2026 · % working-age population using generative AI across 147 economies. Western telemetry — see sources for caveats.

World Map — AI Usage Index

Per-capita AI usage index normalised against working-age population. Darker / higher = more AI usage relative to population size.

Top Countries by AI Adoption

Ranked by usage index (per-capita Claude.ai usage, normalised). Countries with zero recorded usage or unreported Claude.ai metrics are excluded. Click any row or use the selector to view the full metric set.

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Methodology

Usage index = observed Claude.ai interactions per working-age capita, normalised across all countries. Source: Anthropic Economic Index, August 2025 snapshot (194 reported country rows, plus a supplemental China row using World Bank 2024 GDP and working-age population). GDP data comes from World Bank / IMF fields bundled in the Anthropic dataset, with China GDP-per-worker sourced directly from World Bank. Countries with zero recorded interactions are excluded from ranked lists but remain in the dataset; countries with unreported Claude.ai usage metrics do not rank.