{ "question": "What percentage of companies use AI?", "answer": "20.2% of firms in OECD countries used AI in 2025, according to the OECD's ICT usage data, up from 14.2% in 2024 and 8.7% in 2023. Executive surveys give much higher figures: 88% of McKinsey respondents (mid-2025) said their organization regularly uses AI in at least one business function, and an NBER survey of senior executives (summer 2026) found 78%.", "period": "2025", "key_numbers": [ { "value": "20.2%", "label": "Firms in OECD countries using AI", "note": "OECD, 2025 data", "stat": "ai/oecd-firms-using-ai" }, { "value": "52.0%", "label": "Large firms in OECD countries using AI, against 17.4% of small firms", "note": "OECD, 2025 data", "stat": "ai/oecd-large-firms-using-ai" }, { "value": "88%", "label": "McKinsey respondents whose organization regularly uses AI in at least one function", "note": "McKinsey State of AI, Jun-Jul 2025", "stat": "ai/organizations-using-ai-mckinsey" }, { "value": "78%", "label": "Firms using AI, per nearly 9,000 senior executives in seven countries", "note": "NBER w34836, summer 2026", "stat": "ai/executives-firms-using-ai-nber" }, { "value": "24.6%", "label": "US employer firms that used AI in the last two weeks", "note": "Census BTOS, 5-18 Oct 2026", "stat": "ai/us-business-ai-use" } ], "tables": [ { "id": "by-survey", "title": "Share of companies using AI, by survey", "columns": [ "Survey", "Who is counted", "Period", "Using AI" ], "rows": [ [ "OECD ICT usage data", "Firms in OECD countries with data, mostly 10 or more staff", "2025", "20.2%" ], [ "Eurostat community survey", "EU enterprises with 10 or more staff", "2025", "19.95%" ], [ "US Census Bureau, BTOS", "US employer firms; AI in any business function in the last two weeks", "5-18 Oct 2026", "24.6%" ], [ "Federal Reserve Banks, Small Business Credit Survey", "US employer firms with 1 to 499 staff; use by the business or any employee", "Sep-Nov 2025", "46%" ], [ "NBER working paper w34836", "Firms of nearly 9,000 senior executives in the US and six other countries", "Summer 2026", "78%" ], [ "McKinsey State of AI", "1,993 respondents in 105 nations; regular use in at least one function", "Jun-Jul 2025", "88%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "survey-oecd", "survey-eurostat", "survey-census", "survey-fed-sbcs", "survey-nber", "survey-mckinsey" ], "note": "Each row is the publisher's own headline figure. The surveys ask different questions of different groups, so the rows are not a ranking. The US Census figure has its own page, with every firm size, sector and wave." }, { "id": "by-size", "title": "Firms using AI, by firm size (2025)", "columns": [ "Firm size", "OECD countries", "EU (Eurostat)" ], "rows": [ [ "Small (EU: 10 to 49 staff)", "17.4%", "17%" ], [ "Medium (EU: 50 to 249 staff)", "not given in the OECD release", "30.36%" ], [ "Large (EU: 250 or more staff)", "52.0%", "55.03%" ], [ "All firms covered", "20.2%", "19.95%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "size-small", "size-medium", "size-large", "size-all" ], "note": "OECD announcement of 28 Jan 2026 and Eurostat 2025 data. Firms with fewer than 10 staff are not covered by either. The OECD release gives small and large firms only." }, { "id": "by-sector", "title": "Firms in OECD countries using AI, by industry (2025)", "columns": [ "Industry", "Using AI" ], "rows": [ [ "Information and communication (ICT)", "57.3%" ], [ "Professional and scientific services", "36.8%" ], [ "All industries", "20.2%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "sector-ict", "sector-professional", "sector-all" ], "note": "OECD, 28 Jan 2026. ICT is the highest industry and professional and scientific services the second. ICT firms in Sweden (87.9%), Austria (79.9%) and Finland (79.8%) are close to saturation.", "source": "oecd" }, { "id": "mckinsey-trend", "title": "McKinsey global survey: respondents whose organization uses AI, each year", "columns": [ "Survey", "Share of respondents", "What was asked" ], "rows": [ [ "2017", "20%", "Adopted AI in at least one business area" ], [ "2019", "58%", "Adopted AI in at least one business area (the peak before 2024)" ], [ "2022", "50%", "Adopted AI in at least one business area" ], [ "2023", "55%", "Use AI in at least one business function" ], [ "Early 2024", "72%", "Use AI in at least one business function" ], [ "2024", "78%", "Use AI in at least one business function" ], [ "Jun-Jul 2025", "88%", "Regularly use AI in at least one business function" ], [ "May-Jun 2026", "Nearly nine in ten", "Regularly use AI in at least one business function; no exact percent published" ] ], "row_ids": [ "mck-2017", "mck-2019", "mck-2022", "mck-2023", "mck-2024-early", "mck-2024", "mck-2025", "mck-2026" ], "note": "Shares of survey respondents, not of all companies; many respondents work at large firms. In 2026, 44% said AI is scaling across their enterprise, up from 38% a year earlier.", "source": "mckinsey" }, { "id": "history", "title": "Firms in OECD countries using AI, each year", "columns": [ "Year", "Firms using AI" ], "rows": [ [ "2023", "8.7%" ], [ "2024", "14.2%" ], [ "2025", "20.2%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "oecd-2023", "oecd-2024", "oecd-2025" ], "note": "OECD ICT Access and Usage Database, countries where data are available. The OECD puts growth in firm-level AI use at 42.4% in 2025, slower than in earlier years.", "source": "oecd" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "ICT Access and Usage Database", "publisher": "OECD", "type": "official", "url": "https://www.oecd.org/" }, { "name": "ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises", "publisher": "Eurostat", "type": "official", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/" }, { "name": "The State of AI (McKinsey Global Survey)", "publisher": "McKinsey & Company", "type": "survey", "url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/" }, { "name": "NBER working papers", "publisher": "National Bureau of Economic Research", "type": "study", "url": "https://www.nber.org/" }, { "name": "Business Trends and Outlook Survey", "publisher": "US Census Bureau", "type": "official", "url": "https://www.census.gov/" }, { "name": "Small Business Credit Survey", "publisher": "Federal Reserve Banks", "type": "survey", "url": "https://www.fedsmallbusiness.org/" }, { "name": "Center for Economic Studies working papers", "publisher": "US Census Bureau", "type": "study", "url": "https://www.census.gov/" }, { "name": "Federal Reserve Board publications (SHED report, FEDS Notes, speeches)", "publisher": "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System", "type": "official", "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/" } ], "content_changed_on": "2026-10-30", "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai/companies-using-ai", "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai/companies-using-ai.csv" }