Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI’s role in the US and global economy

Travel planning in Hawaii, scientific research in Massachusetts, and building web applications in India. On the face of it, these three activities share very little in common. But it turns out that they’re the particular uses of Claude that are some of the most overrepresented in each of these places.

That doesn’t mean these are the most popular tasks: software engineering is still by far in the lead in almost every state and country in the world. Instead, it means that people in Massachusetts have been more likely to ask Claude for help with scientific research than people elsewhere – or, for instance, that Claude users in Brazil appear to be particularly enthusiastic about languages: they use Claude for translation and language-learning about six times more than the global average.

These are statistics we found in our third Anthropic Economic Index report . In this latest installment, we’ve expanded our efforts to document the early patterns of AI adoption that are beginning to reshape work and the economy. We measure how Claude is being used differently…

As we’ve discussed previously , we generally distinguish between tasks that involve automation (in which AI directly produces work with minimal user input) and augmentation (in which the user and AI collaborate to get things done). We further break automation down into directive and feedback loop interactions, where directive conversations involve the minimum of human interaction, and in feedback loop tasks, humans relay real-world outcomes back to the model. We also break augmentation down into learning (asking for information or explanations), task iteration (working with Claude collaboratively), and validation (asking for feedback).

The overall trend is noisy, but generally, as the GDP per capita of a country increases, the use of Claude shifts away from tasks in the Computer and Mathematical occupation group, and towards a diverse range of other activities, like education, art and design; office and administrative support; and the physical and social sciences. Compare the trend line in the first graph below to the remaining three:

We summarize the report below. In addition, we’ve designed an interactive website where you can explore our data yourself. For the first time, you can search for trends and results in Claude.ai use across every US state and all occupations we track, to see how AI is used where you live or by people in similar jobs. Finally, if you’d like to build on our analysis, we’ve made our dataset openly available , alongside the data from our previous Economic Index reports.

We've expanded the Anthropic Economic Index to include geographic data. Below we cover what we've learned about how Claude is used across countries and US states.

The US uses Claude far more than any other nation. India is in second place, followed by Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, each with similar shares.