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20 percent of companies in the European Union use AI, Poland is second to last among EU countries

by AI | 11.Dec 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Almost all European Union countries recorded an increase in the share of companies using AI technologies compared to the previous year.

The most common use of AI technology by enterprises in the EU was the analysis of written language. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/dpa

20 percent of companies in the European Union use AI, and Poland, with a result of 8.4 percent, is second to last among the countries of the European Union – according to a Eurostat study.

20 percent of European Union companies using AI this year is an increase of 6.5 percentage points compared to 13.5 percent in 2024. In 2023 it was 8.1 percent.

The highest share of such enterprises in 2025 was recorded in Denmark (42.0 percent), Finland (37.8 percent) and Sweden (35.0 percent).

At the other end were Romania (5.2 percent), Poland (8.4 percent) and Bulgaria (8.5 percent).

Almost all European Union countries recorded an increase in the share of companies using AI technologies compared to the previous year. The largest increase was recorded in Denmark (+14.5 percentage points), followed by Finland (+13.5 percentage points) and Lithuania (+12.5 percentage points).

The most common use of AI technologies by enterprises in the EU was written language analysis (11.8 percent). Next, AI was used to generate images, videos, sound/audio (9.5 percent), written or spoken language (8.8 percent), and to convert spoken language into a machine-readable format (7.2 percent).

Compared to 2024, in 2025 the number of applications of AI technologies in written language analysis increased the most (+4.9 percentage points), followed by the generation of written or spoken language (+3.4 percent).