use at least one covered AI technology
Rank 8 of 27Difference to EU-27 +6.0 %EU-27 20.0 %
PERMANENT COUNTRY DOSSIER · EUROSTAT
AI adoption: Germany
Two separate official perspectives on the same country: enterprises with at least ten persons employed and people aged 16 to 74. No composite index and no modelled estimate.
used generative AI in the last 3 months
Rank 20 of 27Difference to EU-27 -0.4 %EU-27 32.7 %
Important: the two measures have different denominators and must not be added or subtracted. Enterprises below ten persons employed are not covered by this series.
Reference year 2025
Enterprise adoption over time
Published survey years; missing intermediate years are not interpolated.
Enterprise adoption by size
| Measure | Germany | EU-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 10+ persons employed | 26.0 % | 20.0 % |
| 10–49 persons employed | 23.1 % | 17.0 % |
| 50–249 persons employed | 35.6 % | 30.4 % |
| 250+ persons employed | 57.0 % | 55.0 % |
Individual use by purpose
| Measure | Germany | EU-27 |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 32.3 % | 32.7 % |
| Private purposes | 27.2 % | 25.5 % |
| Professional purposes | 15.8 % | 15.4 % |
| Formal education | 6.0 % | 9.3 % |
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Original sources & downloads
Values come from Eurostat datasets isoc_eb_ai, isoc_eb_ain2 and isoc_ai_iaiu. Status flags and missing values remain preserved in the dataset.
Country dossier as JSON JSON ↘Country data as CSV CSV ↘Metadata as JSON-LD JSON-LD ↘Open interactive atlas ↗
- Eurostat Statistics API ↗
- Eurostat · isoc_eb_ai · DOI 10.2908/ISOC_EB_AI ↗
- Eurostat · isoc_eb_ain2 · DOI 10.2908/ISOC_EB_AIN2 ↗
- Eurostat · isoc_ai_iaiu · DOI 10.2908/ISOC_AI_IAIU ↗
- Eurostat methodology · ICT usage in enterprises ↗
- Eurostat methodology · ICT usage by individuals ↗
- Destatis · KI-Technologien nach Beschäftigtengrößenklasse ↗