In 2025, 20.0% of EU companies with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence (IA) to conduct their business, showing solid growth of 6.5 percentage points (pp) compared to 13.5% in 2024. Compared to 2021 (7.7%) and 2023 (8.1%), the use of AI technologies is becoming more and more popular among EU businesses.
The highest proportions of these companies in 2025 were in Denmark (42.0%), Finland (37.8%) and Sweden (35.0%). At the other end were Romania (5.2%), Poland (8.4%) and Bulgaria (8.5%).
Almost all EU countries recorded an increase in the share of companies using AI technologies compared to the previous year. Denmark recorded the largest increase (+14.5 pp), followed by Finland (+13.5 pp) and Lithuania (+12.5 pp).
Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai
The most common use of AI technology by EU companies was written language analysis (11.8%). This is followed by the use of AI to generate images, videos, sound/audio (9.5%), written or spoken language (8.8%), and to convert spoken language into a machine-readable format (7.2%).
Compared to 2024, the use of AI technology that increased the most in 2025 was the analysis of written language (+4.9 pp), followed by the generation of written or spoken language (+3.4%).
Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai