Dataset · Microsoft AI Economy Institute
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population
2 years, 2025–2026 · 146 countries
The share of people aged 15 to 64 who used a generative-AI tool — any company's chatbot or assistant — during a given period, as estimated by Microsoft's AI Economy Institute. It is one of the few measures of AI adoption that covers most of the world with a single method.
This site holds every year from 2025 to 2026, read from Microsoft AI Economy Institute’s own data and stored exactly as published.
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population · the file
- Newest
- AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, 2026
- Held
- 2 years · 292 rows
- Licence
- Other open terms
012 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, 2026Newest | 146 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, 2025 | 146 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: ai-user-share-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2026 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 146 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 146 | 0 | |
Generative-AI users (% of population aged 15–64)ai_user_shareHeadline | The headline figure: Generative-AI users (% of population aged 15–64). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 6.1 | 101 | 0 | |
Periodreporting_periodLabel | The half-year or quarter the estimate describes; each edition holds the last period Microsoft published for its year. | Text | — | 1 | 0 | |
Estimate basisestimate_basisLabel | Whether the figure is the country's own estimate or a regional estimate Microsoft gave to every country in a pool of neighbours with too little data of their own, as its technical paper marks them; an unnamed pool is identified by its members. | Text | — | 7 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03146 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2025 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 46 | 46 |
| Americas | 25 | 25 |
| Asia | 40 | 40 |
| Europe | 32 | 32 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 |
| All | 146 | 146 |
The same 146 countries in every year.
Not in this dataset · 79 places this site covers
Microsoft AI Economy Institute gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Microsoft AI Economy Institute
2 · Their file
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, Q2 2026
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
2 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as ai-user-share-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the country file in Microsoft's own AI Diffusion repository on GitHub, each figure stored as Microsoft published it, to one decimal. French Guiana, which Microsoft lists, is not a country row on this site.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
The publisher’s own written permission to reuse, commercial use included. Read the terms before republishing.
In plain words
Microsoft publishes this data under the MIT License, a software licence that permits reuse, including commercial reuse, provided Microsoft's copyright and permission notice travel with it.
A credit line
Microsoft AI Economy Institute. AI Diffusion Report, country data (Q2 2026 update). Method: Misra, A., Wang, J., McCullers, S., White, K., & Lavista Ferres, J. (2025). Measuring AI Diffusion: A Population-Normalized Metric for Tracking Global AI Usage. arXiv:2511.02781.
Cite this dataset
Microsoft AI Economy Institute. AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, 2025–2026 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/ai-user-share
The publisher’s own citation: Microsoft AI Economy Institute. AI Diffusion Report, country data (Q2 2026 update). Method: Misra, A., Wang, J., McCullers, S., White, K., & Lavista Ferres, J. (2025). Measuring AI Diffusion: A Population-Normalized Metric for Tracking Global AI Usage. arXiv:2511.02781.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Government Cyber Security CapacityV-Dem Institute · 26 held · 2000–2025
- Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 15 held · 2010–2024
- Government AI Readiness IndexOxford Insights · 6 held · 2020–2025
07Questions
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population: questions and answers
What is the AI User Share of the Working-Age Population?
The share of people aged 15 to 64 who used a generative-AI tool — any company's chatbot or assistant — during a given period, as estimated by Microsoft's AI Economy Institute. It is one of the few measures of AI adoption that covers most of the world with a single method.
Which years of the AI User Share of the Working-Age Population can I download?
All 2, from 2025 to 2026, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does Microsoft AI Economy Institute rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under MIT License, with credit to Microsoft AI Economy Institute. The licence text is linked on this page.