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Macroeconomics  |  January 23, 2025 12:57:58, updated

Usage of AI technologies increasing in EU enterprises

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In 2024, 13.5% of enterprises in the EU with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to conduct their business, indicating a 5.5 percentage points (pp) growth from 8.0% in 2023.

The highest shares of these enterprises were in Denmark (27.6%), Sweden (25.1%) and Belgium (24.7%). At the other end were Romania (3.1%), Poland (5.9%) and Bulgaria (6.5%).

All EU countries recorded increases in the share of enterprises using AI technologies compared with 2023, with Sweden experiencing the highest increase of 14.7 pp, followed by Denmark (+12.4 pp) and Belgium (+10.9 pp). By contrast, modest increases were recorded in Portugal (+0.8 pp), Romania (+1.6 pp) and Spain (+2.1 pp).

Enterprises using AI technologies, EU, 2023 and 2024. Bar chart. See link to full dataset below.

Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai

Enterprises continued to adopt various AI technologies to enhance their operations. The most used AI technology was performing analysis of written language (text mining). It was adopted by 6.9% of enterprises after following a 4.0 pp year-on-year increase. The second most used AI technology was generating written or spoken language (natural language generation), used by 5.4% of enterprises (+3.3 pp compared with 2023). This was followed by converting spoken language into machine-readable format (speech recognition), used by 4.8% enterprises (+2.2 pp).

Type of AI technology used by enterprises, EU, 2023 and 2024. Bar chart. See link to full dataset below.

Source dataset: isoc_eb_ai

 

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Methodological notes

  • EU enterprises: at least 10 employees and self-employed persons.
  • Data comes from the 2024 EU survey on ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises and refers to all enterprises with at least 10 employees or self-employed persons (classified in statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE) Rev. 2 sections C to J, L to N and group 95.1).
  • Enterprises using Artificial intelligence refer to the following AI technologies:
    • technologies performing analysis of written language (text mining)
    • technologies converting spoken language into machine-readable format (speech recognition)
    • technologies generating written or spoken language (natural language generation)
    • technologies identifying objects or persons based on images (image recognition, image processing)
    • machine learning (e.g. deep learning) for data analysis
    • technologies automating different workflows or assisting in decision making (Al-based software robotic process automation)
    • technologies enabling physical movement of machines via autonomous decisions based on observation of surroundings (autonomous robots, self-driving vehicles, autonomous drones)
  • Machine learning (e.g. deep learning) involves ‘training’ a computer model to better perform an automated task, e.g. pattern recognition.
  • Natural language processing, natural language generation or speech recognition are the ability for a computer program to understand human language as it is spoken, to convert data into natural language representation or to identify words and phrases in spoken language and convert them to a machine-readable format.
  • France and Sweden: break in the time series in 2023.

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