The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by EU enterprises with ten or more employees reached 20.0% in 2025. This represents a substantial year-over-year growth of 6.5 percentage points from the 13.5% adoption rate recorded in 2024.
Over a period of four years, AI usage among EU businesses has nearly tripled from the 7.7% adoption rate noted in 2021.
Geographically, Northern European countries led in adoption, with Denmark recording the highest rate at 42.0%, followed by Finland at 37.8%, and Sweden at 35.0%. Conversely, the lowest shares were reported in Romania (5.2%), Poland (8.4%), and Bulgaria (8.5%).
By sector, the Information and Communication industry demonstrated the highest adoption rate by a significant margin at 62.5%, followed by the Professional, scientific and technical services sector at 40.4%.
The most commonly reported AI applications utilized by EU enterprises in 2025 were analyzing written language (Text Mining) at 11.8%, generating pictures, videos, sound, or audio at 9.5%, and generating written or spoken language or programming codes (Natural Language Generation) at 8.8%. Converting spoken language into a machine-readable format (Speech Recognition) was used by 7.2% of enterprises. Analyzing written language was the fastest-growing application in 2025, increasing by 4.9 percentage points over the previous year.
