AI use in European businesses, by country
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AI use in European businesses, by country
19.95% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used at least one AI technology in 2025, up from 13.48% in 2024 and 7.65% in 2021. Denmark leads at 42.03%. Romania is last in the EU at 5.21%.
By Georgi Todorov · Data collected 5 October 2026
What the data shows
AI use in EU businesses rose from 7.65% in 2021 to 19.95% in 2025. Most of that growth came in the last two years: the share was still 8.06% in 2023.
Company size matters more than country. In 2025, 55.03% of large EU enterprises used AI, against 30.36% of medium-sized and 17.00% of small ones.
The biggest one-year jump inside the EU was in Denmark, from 27.58% to 42.03%. The gap between north and south-east remains wide: Denmark, Finland and Sweden are all above 35%, while Romania, Poland, Bulgaria and Greece are below 9%.
Share of enterprises using AI, 2025
Enterprises with 10 or more employees, %. Source: Eurostat.
Full dataset, 2021–2025
| Country | 2021 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024–25 (pp) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Union (27) | 7.65 | 8.06 | 13.48 | 19.95 | +6.47 |
| Denmark | 23.89 | 15.17 | 27.58 | 42.03 | +14.45 |
| Finland | 15.79 | 15.10 | 24.37 | 37.82 | +13.45 |
| Sweden | 9.92 | 10.37 b | 25.09 | 35.04 | +9.95 |
| Belgium | 10.32 | 13.81 | 24.71 | 34.54 | +9.83 |
| Luxembourg | 13.00 | 14.45 | 23.73 | 33.61 | +9.88 |
| Netherlands | 13.10 | 14.10 | 23.06 | 33.21 b | +10.15 |
| Austria | 8.83 | 10.79 | 20.27 | 29.95 | +9.68 |
| Norway | 10.82 | 9.17 | 20.77 | 28.89 | +8.12 |
| Germany | 10.56 | 11.55 | 19.75 | 25.97 | +6.22 |
| Estonia | 2.77 | 5.19 | 13.89 | 23.40 | +9.51 |
| Slovenia | 11.73 | 11.37 | 20.89 | 21.61 | +0.72 |
| Malta | 10.16 | 13.17 | 17.30 | 21.51 | +4.21 |
| Lithuania | 4.45 | 4.86 | 8.76 | 21.30 | +12.54 |
| Spain | 7.67 | 9.18 | 11.31 | 20.27 | +8.96 |
| Ireland | 7.88 | 8.01 | 14.90 | 19.64 | +4.74 |
| France | 6.67 | 5.88 b | 9.91 | 18.16 | +8.25 |
| Slovakia | 5.19 | 7.04 | 10.78 | 18.00 | +7.22 |
| Czechia | 4.46 | 5.90 | 11.26 | 17.60 | +6.34 |
| Italy | 6.17 | 5.05 | 8.20 | 16.40 | +8.20 |
| Croatia | 8.74 | 7.89 | 11.76 | 15.19 | +3.43 |
| Latvia | 3.72 | 4.53 | 8.83 | 12.21 | +3.38 |
| Portugal | 7.20 | 7.86 | 8.63 | 11.54 | +2.91 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2.07 | 5.34 | 6.36 | 10.78 | +4.42 |
| Hungary | 2.98 | 3.68 | 7.41 | 10.37 | +2.96 |
| Serbia | 0.90 | 1.82 | 6.95 | 10.12 | +3.17 |
| Montenegro | 3.34 | 5.61 | 7.91 | 10.05 | +2.14 |
| Cyprus | 2.59 | 4.67 | 7.90 | 9.27 | +1.37 |
| Albania | 3.67 | – | 8.91 | 8.99 | +0.08 |
| Greece | 2.61 | 3.98 | 9.81 | 8.93 | -0.88 |
| Bulgaria | 3.29 | 3.62 | 6.47 | 8.55 | +2.08 |
| Poland | 2.86 | 3.67 | 5.90 | 8.36 | +2.46 |
| Türkiye | 2.69 | 5.51 | 4.42 | 7.41 | +2.99 |
| Romania | 1.38 | 1.51 | 3.07 | 5.21 | +2.14 |
b = break in the time series that year. A dash means no value was published. The survey did not include AI questions in 2022.
Source and method
- Source: Eurostat, dataset isoc_eb_ai, indicator E_AI_TANY (enterprises using at least one AI technology), last updated by Eurostat on 15 June 2026.
- Coverage: enterprises with 10 or more employees, all activities except agriculture, mining and the financial sector.
- We retrieved the values on 4 October 2026 and compared them with Eurostat’s own Statistics Explained article.
Limits of this data
- The list of technologies that count as AI changed between survey waves, so years are not strictly comparable.
- Eurostat flags a break in series for France and Sweden in 2023 and the Netherlands in 2025.
- The dataset has no values for the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Iceland, and none for North Macedonia.
- “Using AI” means at least one technology in use. It says nothing about how deeply.
Use this data
Free to use with attribution and a link to this page.
Create & Grow (2026). AI use in European businesses, by country (Eurostat data). https://createandgrow.com/research/ai-adoption-enterprises-europe/
About the author
Georgi Todorov is the founder of Create & Grow, a digital PR and SEO agency for B2B brands. More about Georgi