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 business — up 6.5 percentage points in a single year from 13.5% in 2024, and more than double the 8.1% recorded in 2023. Adoption among European firms is rising sharply.
Source: Eurostat — 20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies (dataset isoc_eb_ai) (2025)
What it means
The share of European firms using AI more than doubled in just two years, from 8.1% in 2023 to 20.0% in 2025. For an operator the practical signal is that AI is moving from a minority experiment to a mainstream business tool across the EU — the question is shifting from whether peers are adopting it to how quickly.
Context
Eurostat measures AI use each year through its survey on ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises, covering firms with 10 or more employees. The 2025 figure of 20.0% was published in December 2025 and reflects the 2025 reference year; earlier points cover 2021, 2023 and 2024. Definitions of 'using AI technologies' are harmonised across the survey, so the year-on-year jump reflects genuine diffusion rather than a change in method.
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