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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.

2025bar height: countries covered, up to 1462026
Every year of AI User Share of the Working-Age Population held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, 2026Newest146±0September 29, 2026CSV
AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, 2025146—September 29, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of AI User Share of the Working-Age Population: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2026DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1460
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1460
Generative-AI users (% of population aged 15–64)ai_user_shareHeadlineThe headline figure: Generative-AI users (% of population aged 15–64).Number · up to 1 decimal6.1Cambodia73.3United Arab Emiratesmiddle 15.51010
Periodreporting_periodLabelThe half-year or quarter the estimate describes; each edition holds the last period Microsoft published for its year.Text—10
Estimate basisestimate_basisLabelWhether 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—70

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, by continent.
20252026
Africa4646
Americas2525
Asia4040
Europe3232
Oceania33
All146146

The same 146 countries in every year.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Microsoft AI Economy Institute

  2. 2 · Their file

    AI User Share of the Working-Age Population, Q2 2026

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 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.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

MIT License

  • 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.

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.

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