Kenya has ranked first globally in ChatGPT usage, with 42.1% of internet users aged 16+ using the platform in the past month, according to the July 2025 Global Digital Report by We Are Social and Meltwater.

Kenya has ranked first globally in ChatGPT usage, with 42.1% of internet users aged 16+ using the platform in the past month, according to the July 2025 Global Digital Report by We Are Social and Meltwater.

This places Kenya ahead of the UAE (42%), Israel (41.4%), Malaysia (39.8%), and Brazil (39.7%).

In contrast, usage in countries like the U.S. (19.1%), UK (17.9%), and Japan (5.8%) remains below average. Meanwhile, Chinese users are shifting to local AI platform Deepseek, which now reports 75 million monthly users.