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New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.
ChatGPT adoption is widening and deepening around the world. New OpenAI Signals data shows that people use ChatGPT more often and for a broader range of tasks over time, while its user base is becoming more global and more diverse.
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.
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.
Data is based on a 0.1% sample of users whose accounts were created between 2025-10-15 and 2026-05-01, and includes information on activity through 2026-05-31. Depth measures the number of messages the user has sent in the previous 28 days relative to the number they sent in the 28 days after account creation. Breadth measures the number of cumulative capabilities a user has used, relative to the number they used in the 28 days after account creation. Capabilities are measured using a classifier, which categorizes messages into one of 53 categories. Banned users, users under 18 years of age, and users who do not send any messages for 28 days after account creation are excluded.
ChatGPT adoption has grown sharply across every continent since July 2023. In relative terms, the fastest growth has been in Africa and Asia.