Average of the panel (2025)
19.9
percent of enterprises
+6.1pp vs 2024
Highest
42.0
Denmark
Lowest
5.2
Romania
Countries ranked
32
with a published figure

Data

AI Adoption by Businesses in Europe by Country (2025) — source data. Eurostat.
# Country % of enterprises Change vs 2024
1 Denmark 42 +14.5pp
2 Finland 37.8 +13.5pp
3 Sweden 35 +10pp
4 Belgium 34.5 +9.8pp
5 Luxembourg 33.6 +9.9pp
6 Netherlands 33.2 +10.2pp
7 Austria 30 +9.7pp
8 Norway 28.9 +8.1pp
9 Germany 26 +6.2pp
10 Estonia 23.4 +9.5pp
11 Slovenia 21.6 +0.7pp
12 Malta 21.5 +4.2pp
13 Lithuania 21.3 +12.5pp
14 Spain 20.3 +9pp
15 Ireland 19.6 +4.7pp
16 France 18.2 +8.3pp
17 Slovakia 18 +7.2pp
18 Czechia 17.6 +6.3pp
19 Italy 16.4 +8.2pp
20 Croatia 15.2 +3.4pp
21 Latvia 12.2 +3.4pp
22 Portugal 11.5 +2.9pp
23 Hungary 10.4 +3pp
24 Serbia 10.1 +3.2pp
25 Montenegro 10.1 +2.1pp
26 Cyprus 9.3 +1.4pp
27 Albania 9 n/a
28 Greece 8.9 -0.9pp
29 Bulgaria 8.6 +2.1pp
30 Poland 8.4 +2.5pp
31 Turkey 7.4 +3pp
32 Romania 5.2 +2.1pp

About this Dataset

Denmark leads, with 42.0% of enterprises reporting use of at least one artificial intelligence technology against 5.2% in Romania. The panel average is 19.9%, +6.1pp on 2024, and 36.8 percentage points separate the top of the table from the bottom.

The survey counts a firm as an AI user if it has adopted any one of six listed technologies anywhere in the business. It measures how widely AI has been touched, not how deeply it has been embedded.

The ranking correlates strongly with prior digital adoption rather than with AI policy. Denmark, Finland and Sweden lead here and also lead Europe on cloud uptake; the countries at the bottom have the lowest cloud penetration too. Firm size matters as much as geography: large enterprises report adoption rates several times those of firms with ten to forty-nine employees in every country surveyed, so a national economy weighted toward small firms scores lower regardless of how capable its large companies are.

Every row is the figure published for 2025; no value is carried over from an adjacent year to fill a gap. The chart tracks a fixed panel of 31 countries: those reporting in every year from 2021. The line therefore moves because the countries moved, not because the sample changed. Eurostat first ran this module in 2021 and skipped 2022, so the chart covers four survey years rather than a continuous annual run.

Country pages: Denmark · Finland · Sweden · Belgium · Luxembourg · Netherlands · Austria · Norway · Germany · Estonia · Slovenia · Malta · Lithuania · Spain · Ireland · France · Slovakia · Czechia · Italy · Croatia · Latvia · Portugal · Hungary · Serbia · Montenegro · Cyprus · Albania · Greece · Bulgaria · Poland · Turkey · Romania

Frequently Asked Questions

Denmark, where 42.0% of enterprises with ten or more employees reported using at least one AI technology in 2025, ahead of Finland, Sweden and Belgium. The leaders are the same countries that lead on cloud computing and e-commerce adoption; AI is arriving on top of existing digital infrastructure rather than leapfrogging it.

Eurostat asks whether the enterprise uses any of a defined list of technologies: text mining and natural language processing, speech recognition, image recognition, machine learning for data analysis, autonomous robots or vehicles, and AI-based process automation. A firm that has adopted a single one of these, in any part of the business, counts as a user. The measure therefore captures breadth of adoption rather than depth, and a high national share does not imply intensive use.

The panel average reached 19.9% in 2025, +6.1pp on 2024. The chart's short window is a feature of the data rather than the phenomenon — Eurostat only began asking the question in 2021, and did not run it in 2022. Growth has been fastest in the countries that started highest, so the spread between leaders and laggards has widened rather than narrowed.