This is the 2026-08 edition, checked 2026-09-06. The data retains its actual observation period. Quarterly estimates and annual surveys do not become measurements of the edition month.
AI diffusion · provider estimate
Working-age population, including people offline. Q1 2026.
147 / 219 economies with eligible evidence · Microsoft AI diffusion · 2026-08.r1
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Generative AI · survey
42.54%
2025 survey
Social networks · survey
67.32%
2025 survey
Generative AI for work · survey
24.87%
2025 survey
Enterprise AI · survey
33.61%
2025 survey
Foreground attention per online person
Not measured
Not measured
Country attention data needs a licensed panel or consenting measurement partner. No eligible feed is connected.
Verified net economic benefit
Not measured
Not measured
No national net-benefit series is established. Study findings below retain their task and participant scope.
Separate populations and methods. These rows cannot be added or treated as equivalent adoption rates.
Native-period history for AI diffusion · provider estimate
Source period
Value
Evidence
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Comparable evidence
Countries in the same measurement lane.
Q1 2026 · Microsoft AI diffusion. Ranked only among covered economies.
Economy
AI diffusion · provider estimate
Evidence
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70.1%
63.4%
48.6%
48.4%
47.8%
44.2%
43%
42.2%
42.1%
41.8%
Top eligible rows in the current region/search. Same metric, measurement profile and source period. 2026-08.r1.
Economic evidence / native study periods
What happens when people use AI?
Different tasks, different results. These studies are outside the country ranking.
Randomized controlled study
Experienced developers, familiar repositories
AI-allowed tasks took 19% longer
16 experienced open-source developers; 246 issues in repositories they knew.
Early 2025 experiment · published July 2025
This setting does not represent all developers or current tools. METR’s February 2026 follow-up identifies selection effects and redesigns the study; do not extrapolate this effect to countries.
First edition: openly licensed country AI estimates, official AI and social-use surveys, and scoped productivity studies. Later editions record additions and revisions here.
Why it may matter
Adoption describes reach. Attention requires compatible time measurement. Economic benefit requires evidence about completed work and all-in costs.
What remains uncertain
No comparable monthly country attention, platform audience or realized net-benefit feed is connected. Country coverage and survey populations differ across sources.
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Quarterly review: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October at 08:00 Europe/Zurich, starting 1 October 2026. New editions retain native observation dates; a review does not imply new data from every source.