Industrial statistics & data explorer

Sourced, interactive charts on the numbers that shape heavy industry — where energy goes, how fast AI and predictive maintenance are growing, and where investment is heading. Filter by topic or search. Every figure is cited to a public source (IEA, Stanford AI Index, IRENA and independent market research).

Energy
70%

Where industrial electricity goes

Electric motor-driven systems — pumps, fans, compressors, conveyors — account for roughly 70% of all electricity us…

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Energy
23%

Electricity's rising share of industrial energy

Electricity made up about 23% of global industrial energy use in 2022, up from roughly 19% in 2010. Industry is ste…

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Investment & markets
$153.9B

How fast the industrial-AI market is growing

The global industrial-AI market was estimated at about USD 43.6 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach roughly U…

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Maintenance
$98.2B

The predictive-maintenance market trajectory

The global predictive-maintenance market was estimated at about USD 14.3 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach …

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AI adoption
51%

How widely manufacturers have adopted AI

Enterprise AI use jumped from about 35% of organisations in 2023 to roughly 67% in 2025, according to the Stanford …

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Investment & markets
$1.9T

Global investment in energy efficiency

Global investment in energy efficiency across buildings, transport and industry reached about USD 660 billion in 20…

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Investment & markets

Industrial-tech markets at a glance

The fastest-growing industrial-technology markets — industrial AI, predictive maintenance and energy-efficiency inv…

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AI adoption
542 units (000s)

Industrial robot installations worldwide

About 542,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024 — the fourth straight year above half a millio…

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AI adoption
1012 per 10k employees

Robot density in manufacturing

The global average robot density reached a record 162 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees in 2023 …

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Energy
3.7 % growth

How fast global electricity demand is growing

Global electricity demand rose by 4.3% in 2024 — one of the strongest years in over a decade — and the IEA expects …

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Energy
32%

Renewables' share of global electricity

Renewables generated about 32% of the world's electricity in 2024, and the IEA projects that share rising to roughl…

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Data
25%

Industry's share of global CO2 emissions

Industry was directly responsible for emitting about 9.0 gigatonnes of CO2 in 2022 — roughly a quarter of all energ…

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Energy
0.044 $/kWh

The collapse in solar electricity costs

The global weighted-average cost of electricity from new utility-scale solar PV fell from USD 0.460/kWh in 2010 to …

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Energy
108 $/kWh

The fall in battery pack prices

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have fallen about 93% since 2010, reaching a record low of USD 115/kWh in 2024 — a …

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AI adoption
0.07 $/M tokens

The collapse in AI inference costs

The cost of running an AI model at GPT-3.5-equivalent quality fell from about USD 20 per million tokens in late 202…

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Investment & markets
$155.84B

How fast the digital-twin market is growing

Estimates of the global digital-twin market vary widely by analyst, but a representative forecast puts it at roughl…

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Investment & markets
$41.7B

The machine-vision market for quality inspection

The global machine-vision market was estimated at about USD 20.4 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach roughly …

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Investment & markets
$13.8B

Enterprise spending on generative AI

Enterprise spending on generative AI reached about USD 13.8 billion in 2024, up more than six-fold from USD 2.3 bil…

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Investment & markets
$50.29B

The operational-technology security market

The market for operational-technology (OT) security — protecting the control systems that run physical plant — is p…

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AI adoption
20 % of enterprises

Share of EU enterprises using AI

In 2025, 20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used artificial-intelligence technologies to run their b…

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AI adoption
41.2 % of enterprises

EU AI adoption by enterprise size

AI use in the EU rises steeply with company size. In 2024, about 41.2% of large enterprises (250+ employees) used A…

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AI adoption
5.2 % of enterprises

EU AI adoption by country

AI adoption varies hugely across the EU. In 2025, the highest shares of enterprises using AI were in Denmark (42.0%…

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AI adoption
26.2 % of AI-using manufacturers

How EU manufacturers use AI

Among EU manufacturers that use AI, the most common applications are not on the factory floor: in 2024 about 27.1% …

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Investment & markets
8.5 % of active enterprises

EU enterprise birth and death rates

In 2023 the EU enterprise birth rate was 10.5% and the death rate 8.5%: about 3.5 million new businesses were creat…

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Investment & markets
6.2 % birth rate

EU enterprise birth rates by country

Enterprise creation in 2023 ranged from very dynamic to very stable across the EU. The highest birth rates were in …

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Energy
24.7 % of final energy

Where the EU's final energy is used

In 2023 transport was the EU's largest energy consumer at 32.0% of final energy use, followed by households (26.4%)…

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Energy
10.6 % of industrial energy

Which EU industries use the most energy

Within EU industry in 2023, the chemical and petrochemical sector was the single largest energy user at 21.5% of in…

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Energy
25.2 % of final energy

Renewables' share of EU energy use

Renewable sources made up 24.5% of the EU's gross final energy consumption in 2023, up 1.4 percentage points on 202…

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Investment & markets

Manufacturing's weight in the EU economy

In 2023 the EU's roughly 2.2 million manufacturing enterprises generated about EUR 2,470 billion of value added and…

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