Israel leads world in AI use, study finds
Israel has been ranked the world’s most intensive user of artificial intelligence per capita, with new data showing widespread daily adoption across its technology workforce.
A study by 5W Public Relations and Louder, based on data from Anthropic’s Economic Index, found Israel tops the global AI Usage Index with a score of 4.9 times its expected share of activity.
The Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan skyline, home to Israel’s high-tech sector
The report, “Claude in Israel: A Study on the Startup Nation”, indicates Israelis use Anthropic’s Claude platform nearly five times more intensively than their proportion of the global working-age population.
Israel accounts for about 0.5% of global Claude usage but only 0.11% of the world’s working-age population. That equates to roughly one in every 185 Claude conversations worldwide, compared with one in every 900 working-age adults.
The study, based on a November 2025 sample across 116 countries, places Singapore second at 4.19, followed by the United States at 3.69 and Australia at 3.27. Israel’s lead over the United States is about 33%.
Workforce data points to similarly high levels of adoption. A survey by the Israel Innovation Authority and the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute found 95% of Israeli tech workers use AI tools regularly, with 78% using them daily.
Among workers aged 25 to 34, daily use rises to 86%. About 70% reported improved output quality, while 40% said AI tools reduced work time by more than half.
“The AI survey reveals the depth of the transformation underway in Israeli high-tech,” said Israel Innovation Authority CEO Dror Bin. “Almost all workers in the sector already use these tools, and this is not a future projection but a present reality reshaping high-tech employment.”
The study found AI use in Israel is concentrated in technical and knowledge-based tasks, including software development and research, and suggests many companies are restructuring workflows around the technology.
Global adoption remains lower. A May 2025 Work Trend Index by Microsoft and LinkedIn estimated AI use among high-tech workers at about 75%.
Separate Microsoft research, published in its AI Diffusion Report, identifies Israel as one of seven “frontier narrowers”: countries actively narrowing the performance gap between AI models.
“Israel is among the world’s leading countries in infrastructure, models, and implementation,” said Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, corporate vice president at Microsoft and managing director of its Israel research and development centre.
The report links Israel’s position to structural factors including a high concentration of startups, strong research and development investment and a globally oriented workforce.
“Israel builds more startups per capita than any country on earth,” said 5WPR founder and chairman Ronn Torossian. “It now also uses AI more intensely than any country on earth. Those two facts are not independent. They are the same fact, measured twice.”
