Signals data
Browse the data to see global consumer ChatGPT adoption patterns, geographic distribution, and work and non-work use.
On this page, you can find regularly updated, privacy-preserving insights on adoption and real-world use of commercial ChatGPT use. This analysis is based on a sample of messages between July 2024 and the end of 2025. Over time, the information on this page may expand to include new breakdowns and additional measures of usage.
How people use ChatGPT
The data available here offers an insight into how consumer ChatGPT is being used at work and for personal projects. This includes the high-level topics of conversation that occur most frequently, as well as whether users’ messages are focused on requesting a chatbot to do something, asking a chatbot questions or for information, or expressing themselves. This dataset only includes consumer ChatGPT messages, not enterprise, and so likely underestimates enterprise usage.
Overall usage
This section looks at overall usage of ChatGPT across work and non-work settings. The data reveals that certain topics of conversation—such as technical help and writing—arise more frequently in work contexts than non-work contexts.
ChatGPT at work
This section explores how consumer ChatGPT plans are used for work purposes, in particular what topics people focus on in work messages and the types of tasks they ask ChatGPT to perform. This dataset only includes consumer ChatGPT messages, not enterprise, and so likely underestimates enterprise usage.
This chart shows the likelihood that a message is work-related given the plan being used, which gives us a sense of what models people look to for work versus other purposes. In this chart, data begins in September 2024, not July 2024.
Asking is when a user is seeking information or clarification from ChatGPT. Doing is when a user wants ChatGPT to produce an output or perform a task. Expressing is when a user expresses views or feelings to ChatGPT, but is not seeking any information or action from it.
Not displayed on this page is information on share of messages and share of work-related messages by O*NET intermediate work activity within each month. That data can be downloaded on the data and methodology page.
Usage by region
Global
This analysis is limited to countries with a population of 5 million or more. OpenAI does not operate in Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or Venezuela.
United States
Usage by different groups
This section offers data on how different groups of users are using ChatGPT. In particular, we look at the share of users by self-reported age and typically masculine/feminine first name, as well as which topics of conversation are more or less frequent depending on the self-reported age group or type of name. This helps us understand how different demographic groups interact with consumer ChatGPT.
Usage by self-reported age
This is an analysis of only users who self-reported their age within their ChatGPT platform.
This is an analysis of only users who self-reported their age within their ChatGPT platform.
Users with typically feminine or masculine names
This shows our best estimate of how many people with typically feminine or masculine names are using ChatGPT since we do not collect information on users’ gender.
This analysis excludes messages from names that are not typically masculine or typically feminine. For more about the methodology we used to determine this please read our full methodology.
This analysis excludes messages from names that are not typically masculine or typically feminine. For more about the methodology we used to determine this please read our full methodology.
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