PERMANENT COUNTRY DOSSIER · EUROSTAT

AI adoption: Portugal

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 PTSource state 15 June 2026No generative classification
Enterprises11.5 %

use at least one covered AI technology

Rank 21 of 27Difference to EU-27 -8.4 %EU-27 20.0 %
People38.7 %

used generative AI in the last 3 months

Rank 13 of 27Difference to EU-27 +6.0 %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.

20217.2 %
20237.9 %
20248.6 %
202511.5 %

Enterprise adoption by size

MeasurePortugalEU-27
10+ persons employed11.5 %20.0 %
10–49 persons employed9.4 %17.0 %
50–249 persons employed18.2 %30.4 %
250+ persons employed49.2 %55.0 %

Individual use by purpose

MeasurePortugalEU-27
Overall38.7 %32.7 %
Private purposes33.2 %25.5 %
Professional purposes19.9 %15.4 %
Formal education14.5 %9.3 %