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Travel planning in Hawaii, scientific research in Massachusetts, and building web applications in India. On the face of it, these three activities share very little in common. But it turns out that they’re the particular uses of Claude that are some of the most overrepresented in each of these places. That doesn’t mean these are the most popular tasks: software engineering is still by far in the lead in almost every state and country in the world. Instead, it means that people in Massachusetts have been more likely to ask Claude for help with scientific research than people elsewhere – or, for instance, that Claude users in Brazil appear to be particularly enthusiastic about languages: they use Claude for translation and language-learning about six times more than the global average. These are statistics we found in our third Anthropic Economic Index report . In this latest installment, we’ve expanded our efforts to document the early patterns of AI adoption that are beginning to reshape work and the economy. We measure how Claude is being used differently… …within the US: we provide the first-ever detailed assessment of how AI use differs between US states. We find that the composition of states’ economies informs which states use Claude the most per capita – and, surprisingly, that the very highest-use states aren’t the ones where coding dominates. …across different countries: our new analysis finds that countries’ use of Claude is strongly correlated with income, and that people in lower-use countries use Claude to automate work more frequently than those in higher-use ones. …over time: we compare our latest data with December 2024-January 2025 and February–March 2025 . We find that the proportion of ‘directively’ automated tasks increased sharply from 27% to 39%, suggesting a rapid increase in AI’s responsibility (and in users’ trust). …and by business users: we now include anonymized data from Anthropic’s first-party API customers (in addition to users of Claude.ai ), allowing us to analyze businesses’ interactions for the first time. We find that API users are significantly more likely to automate tasks with Claude than consumers are, which suggests that major labor market implications could be on the horizon.

We summarize the report below. In addition, we’ve designed an interactive website where you can explore our data yourself. For the first time, you can search for trends and results in Claude.ai use across every US state and all occupations we track, to see how AI is used where you live or by people in similar jobs. Finally, if you’d like to build on our analysis, we’ve made our dataset openly available , alongside the data from our previous Economic Index reports. Geography We've expanded the Anthropic Economic Index to include geographic data. Below we cover what we've learned about how Claude is used across countries and US states. Across countries The US uses Claude far more than any other nation. India is in second place, followed by Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, each with similar shares. Leading countries in terms of global Claude.ai use share. However, there is huge variation in population size across these countries. To account for this, we adjust each country’s share of Claude.ai use by its share of the world’s working population. This gives us our Anthropic AI Usage Index , or AUI. Countries with an AUI greater than 1 use Claude more often than we’d expect based on their working-age population alone, and vice-versa. The twenty countries that score highest on our Anthropic AI Usage Index. From the AUI data, we can see that some small, technologically advanced countries (like Israel and Singapore) lead in Claude adoption relative to their working-age populations. This might to a large degree be explained by income: we found a strong correlation between GDP per capita and the Anthropic AI Usage Index (a 1% higher GDP per capita was associated with a 0.7% higher AUI). This makes sense: the countries that use Claude most often generally also have robust internet connectivity, as well as economies oriented around knowledge work rather than manufacturing. But it does raise a question of economic divergence: previous general-purpose technologies, like electrification or the combustion engine, led to both vast economic growth and a great divergence in living standards around the world. If the effects of AI prove to be largest in richer countries, this general-purpose technology might have similar economic implications. Claude use per capita is positively correlated with income per capita across countries. (Axes are on a log scale.) Patterns within the United States The link between per capita GDP and per capita use of Claude also holds when comparing between US states. In fact, use rises more quickly within income here than across countries: a 1% higher per capita GDP inside the US is associated with a 1.8% higher population-adjusted use of Claude. That said, income actually has less explanatory power within the US than across countries, as there’s much higher variance within the overall trend. That is: other factors, beyond income, must explain more of the variation in population-adjusted use. What else could explain this adoption gap? Our best guess is that it’s differences in the composition of states’ economies. The highest AUI in the US is the District of Columbia (3.82), where the most disproportionately frequent uses of Claude are editing documents and searching for information, among other tasks associated with knowledge work in DC. Similarly, coding-related tasks are especially common in California (the state with the third-highest AUI overall), and finance-related tasks are especially common in New York (which comes in fourth). 1 Even among states with lower population-adjusted use of Claude, like Hawaii, use is closely correlated to the structure of the economy: people in Hawaii request Claude’s assistance for tourism-related tasks at twice the rate of the rest of America. Our interactive website contains plenty of other statistics like these. US states’ Claude adoption relative to their working age populations. Trends in Claude use We’ve been tracking how people use Claude since December 2024. We use a privacy-preserving…