In 2025, 20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to conduct their business, showing a solid growth of 6.5 percentage points (pp) from 13.5% in 2024. Compared with 2021 (7.7%) and 2023 (8.1%), the use of AI technologies is becoming more popular among EU businesses.
The highest shares of these enterprises 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 increases in the share of enterprises using AI technologies compared with the previous year. Denmark registered the highest 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 enterprises was to analyse written language (11.8%). This was followed by AI use to generate pictures, videos, sound/audio (9.5%), written or spoken language (8.8%) and to convert spoken language into machine-readable format (7.2%).
Compared with 2024, the use of AI technology that grew the most in 2025 was analysing written language (+4.9 pp), followed by the generation of written or spoken language (+3.4%).
Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai
