In 2025, 20.0% of EU companies with 10 or more employees will use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to run their business, representing a steady growth of 6.5 percentage points (pp) from 13.5% in 2024. The use of AI technologies is becoming more common among EU companies compared to 2021 (7.7%) and 2023 (8.1%).
In 2025, the highest shares of these companies were in Denmark (42.0%), Finland (37.8%) and Sweden (35.0%). This was followed by Romania (5.2%), Poland (8.4%) and Bulgaria (8.5%).
Almost all EU countries saw an increase in the proportion of companies using AI technology compared to the previous year. The highest growth was recorded in Denmark (+14.5 points), followed by Finland (+13.5 points) and Lithuania (+12.5 points).
Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai
The most common use of AI technology by EU companies was written language analysis (11.8%). This was followed by the generation of images, video, and sound/audio (9.5%), written or spoken language (8.8%), and the use of AI to convert spoken language into machine-readable format (7.2%).
Compared to 2024, the use of AI technology that grew the most in 2025 was written language analysis (+4.9 points), followed by written or spoken word generation (+3.4%).
Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai
