ADOPTION & BUSINESS IMPACT

Who uses AI, and what changes?

Compare adoption on compatible terms. Then examine what measured outcomes can establish.

AI ADOPTION & BUSINESS IMPACT

Is AI reaching everyday businesses?

Slovakia and Czechia, against the same European measure.

Enterprises using AI · 2025
  • Slovakia18.0%
  • Czechia17.6%
  • European Unionregional aggregate19.9%

Slovakia is 1.9 percentage points below the EU aggregate. This measures use, not how deeply AI is implemented or whether it improved productivity.

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10+ persons employed · selected non-financial activities · No observation for 2022
Population, method and interpretation

Percentage of enterprises using at least one AI technology. Selected non-financial business activities (NACE Rev. 2 C–J, L–N and 95.1). Enterprises with at least 10 persons employed. Not intensity of implementation, productivity impact or share of workers using AI.

The EU includes Slovakia and Czechia and is a regional aggregate, not another independent country. The shared observation year is selected automatically. Missing years are gaps; values are not interpolated. Source flags are retained in the survey explorer below.

Method: eurostat-enterprise-ai-size-v1 · Eurostat reuse policy; attribution and stated exceptions apply. Adoption is distinct from cost savings, productivity, job creation and job loss; those outcomes need separate evidence.

AI ADOPTION & BUSINESS IMPACT

The gains businesses expect are still ahead

AI’s effect on sales per employee · executive assessments, %

CountryReported
past 3 years
Expected
next 3 years
United States0.24%2.25%
United Kingdom0.29%1.86%
Germany0.24%0.87%
Australia0.49%0.92%

Self-reported past effects and future expectations — neither is a measured causal effect.

Country survey frames differ. These figures are not comparable with Eurostat adoption rates. Applications and executive usage

MEASURED OUTCOMES

Using AI is not the same as benefiting from it

Two different workflows and study designs. These results are not a common leaderboard or an average business effect.

Customer support+15%

more issues resolved per hour

One company and workflow; not an economy-wide productivity estimate.

Population
5,172 customer-support agents
Design
Workplace staggered rollout; quasi-experimental analysis
Period
Staggered workplace rollout studied in the 2025 journal edition; not a 2025 annual statistic
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Experienced developers+19%

longer task completion time

Historical 2025 tools and a narrow sample; not a measure of current tool performance.

Population
16 experienced developers; 246 tasks
Design
Randomized field experiment on familiar open-source repositories
Period
February–June 2025
Uncertainty
2% to 39% · 95% confidence interval; reported in METR 2026 update
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UNITED STATES / CHINA

Different populations, different adoption questions

UNITED STATES / BUSINESS ADOPTION

The size of the business changes the picture

Share using AI in any business function · four-period moving average

Adoption over time

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Same period, all seven sizes

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Period ending 2026-06-14 · source-published smoothed values
USA · Census BTOS / 2026-05-03

Which American businesses use AI

% · US nonfarm employer businesses in the stated sector
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Dated firm survey · not comparable with Eurostat

Firm use in the US and individual use in China have different denominators and periods. These panels provide context; they do not rank countries against Eurostat.

AI IN BUSINESS · EUROSTAT

Who is actually using AI?

Business adoption across Europe — and the divide between small and large firms

Source ↗
Adjust survey selection 2025 · All · 10+ persons employed
Slovakia · 202518.0%of surveyed enterprises use at least one AI technology
EU aggregate · same size class19.9%Regional aggregate, excluded from country ranking

Slovakia · businesses using AI · 2025

18.0% using AI

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All · 10+ persons employed · Eurostat enterprise survey. The remainder is 100 minus the published adoption estimate. These are survey shares, not counts of respondents or measures of implementation depth.

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The company-size divide · 2025

○ Small: 10–49 persons · ● Large: 250+ · percentage of enterprises within each size class. Each point has its own denominator.

Survey scope, dates and source flags

Percentage of enterprises using at least one AI technology. Selected non-financial business activities (NACE Rev. 2 C–J, L–N and 95.1). Enterprises with at least 10 persons employed. Not intensity of implementation, productivity impact or share of workers using AI.

Coverage is European survey participants, not a global adoption ranking. Small firms with fewer than 10 persons employed are excluded. Size classes and the total are separate survey populations; percentages must not be added. EU is an aggregate. Non-response, survey design and sector mix can affect comparisons.

Source flags are retained: b = break in time series; e = estimated; p = provisional; u = low reliability. Missing and confidential values are not replaced by zero. No 2022 observation is inferred.

Eurostat · isoc_eb_ai · source update 2026-06-15T11:00:00+0200 · captured 2026-10-23 · Eurostat reuse policy; attribution and stated exceptions apply
eurostat-enterprise-ai-size-v1 · SHA-256 f5f6d136c4ed04923d17a63c4b0b23d6999e7a4774450709ae214c24b7674357

Eurostat dataset and original observations ↗
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