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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 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).
Source: Eurostat