• Global AI Adoption in 2025: A Widening Digital Divide

    Summary

    Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to risein the second half of 2025, increasing by 1.2 percentagepoints compared to the first half of the year, with roughlyone in six people worldwide now using generative AI tools,remarkable progress for a technology that only recentlyentered mainstream use. 

    Despite progress in AI adoption, the data shows a wideningdivide: adoption in the Global North grew nearly twice as fastas in the Global South. As a result, 24.7 percent of the workingage population in the Global North is now using these tools,compared to only 14.1 percent in the Global South.