How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

What happened

Using aggregated data, OpenAI Signals measures how people interact with Individual ChatGPT plans (these include Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans) over time. This analysis offers a view into how Individual AI usage is evolving as ChatGPT reaches global scale.

Usage by people with typically-female names has increased⁠, now representing most usage globally. Brazil, Colombia, Poland, and Namibia rank among the countries where messages sent by users with typically feminine names most significantly exceed users with typically masculine names. In contrast, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mali have the most concentrated usage by those with typically masculine names. 1

Non-English ChatGPT usage grew alongside global usage. Users predominantly using a language other than English now represent over half of active users. The leading non-English languages on ChatGPT are Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Why it matters

The visualizations below highlight several core trends in global AI adoption: how use of ChatGPT deepened since launch, the ways people incorporate ChatGPT into their routines, and how this varies across languages and regions. Together, these findings provide a clearer picture of how people around the world are incorporating ChatGPT into work, learning, and daily life—in other words how AI is benefiting a large swath of humanity.

As individuals use ChatGPT for longer, they both send more messages daily and try more new capabilities. Over time, users both did more things and did things more on ChatGPT. Six months after signing up, users sent 50% more messages per day than they did when they signed up. They also doubled the number of distinct tasks they’ve tried on ChatGPT.

ChatGPT adoption has grown sharply across every continent since July 2023. In relative terms, the fastest growth has been in Africa and Asia.

A similar pattern appears across country-development groupings: lower-Human Development Index (HDI) countries have seen the fastest relative growth in weekly active users since July 2023. OpenAI has continued to provide low-cost access to ChatGPT through our free and Go plans.

What to watch

Uzbek, Kazakh, and Burmese were the languages with the largest percentage increase in their share of active users since July 2023.

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