PERMANENT COUNTRY DOSSIER · EUROSTAT

AI adoption: France

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.

Country code FRSource state 15 June 2026No generative classification
Enterprises18.2 %

use at least one covered AI technology

Rank 15 of 27Difference to EU-27 -1.8 %EU-27 20.0 %
People37.5 %

used generative AI in the last 3 months

Rank 16 of 27Difference to EU-27 +4.8 %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.

20216.7 %
20235.9 %
20249.9 %
202518.2 %

Enterprise adoption by size

MeasureFranceEU-27
10+ persons employed18.2 %20.0 %
10–49 persons employed15.0 %17.0 %
50–249 persons employed30.8 %30.4 %
250+ persons employed58.0 %55.0 %

Individual use by purpose

MeasureFranceEU-27
Overall37.5 %32.7 %
Private purposes27.7 %25.5 %
Professional purposes18.4 %15.4 %
Formal education11.0 %9.3 %