Data · The AI economy

Where people put AI to work

A public reading of the Anthropic Economic Index open data. It shows how people used the Claude AI assistant across US states, countries, and kinds of work in May 2026. It is one assistant's usage, not the whole economy.

How to read this This is Claude.ai usage, not all AI. The Usage Index compares a place's share of that usage with its share of the world's working-age population: 1.0 is proportional, above is higher than expected, below is lower. Small figures are withheld for privacy, so a blank means not published, not zero, and percentages need not add to 100.

This wide interactive view is built for a larger screen. Open this page on a laptop or desktop to explore the maps, rankings, and charts.

Denmark

AI Literacy Foundation is based in Copenhagen, so we start at home. How Denmark uses Claude, how that compares with the world, and the topics people here bring to it.

Europe, country by country

European countries ordered by their Usage Index, with Denmark highlighted. Ranks here are within Europe. Pin any country to compare the rest against it.

Countries by Usage IndexIndex

The United States, state by state

Each tile is a state, placed roughly by geography and coloured by its Usage Index. Select any state for its rank, its most frequent topics, and the topics most distinctive to it. Pin a state to compare the rest against it.

States by Usage IndexIndex

The world, country by country

Every published country, ordered by its Usage Index. AI Literacy Foundation is based in Copenhagen, so Denmark is one tap away as a benchmark. Pin any country to compare the rest against it.

Countries by Usage IndexIndex

Share of all Claude.ai usage

A different lens. Not per person, but each country's slice of total measured usage. The United States alone is about a fifth of it.

How people use AI

Not where, but what for. The occupations whose tasks appear most, whether people delegate work or collaborate on it, and the things Claude actually produces.

Occupations by usage

Tasks mapped to the US O*NET-SOC occupation they belong to, worldwide. The bar shows each occupation's split between automation, where the person delegates a task, and augmentation, where the person works with Claude.

Augmentation, working together Automation, delegating the task

Delegate or collaborate

The split between automation and augmentation, by setting. Personal chat is close to even. The developer API is almost all automation.

What Claude produces

The main output of each conversation, worldwide. One hundred squares, each roughly one in a hundred conversations.

Most common requests

The broad topics people bring to Claude, as a share of conversations. Switch between the world and the United States.


Four things the data shows

Source. Anthropic Economic Index, released 26 June 2026, licensed CC-BY. Companion report: Cadences, with data through May 2026. Figures are shares of Claude.ai conversations under Anthropic's privacy filtering, so they need not sum to 100. Occupations use the US O*NET-SOC classification. The Usage Index covers countries and US states only.