AI Diffusion Report 2025 H1 — transcribed tables

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Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 4

Historical economic comparison in report prose

Time interval for these quoted growth rates is not specified in paragraph. Report also says both economies had about $2,000 per capita income in 1960 (2025 dollars), and South Korea doubled living standards every eleven years. The GDP chart’s exact annual series is not printed.

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Historical economic comparison in report prose
EconomyAnnual economic growth (%)
South Korea6.2
Philippines1.8

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 7

Population and prerequisites for AI access

Exact labels on source pyramid. “Datacenters” is an additional qualitative layer with no numeric count. Source references population 2024, electricity, internet 2024, and digital-literacy data.

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Population and prerequisites for AI access
MeasureBillion people
World population8.1
With electricity7.4
Access to internet5.5
Basic digital skills4.2
AI users1.2

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 8

Sub-Saharan Africa share of global population without electricity

Exact percentages in prose; report says over 750 million people globally lack electricity and 18 of the 20 countries with largest electricity-access deficits are in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Sub-Saharan Africa share of global population without electricity
PeriodShare (%)
201050
Report time85

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 10

Zambia: connectivity and AI adoption

Rounded narrative values. H1 appendix gives national diffusion 11.7%. Distinct denominators: not directly comparable counts.

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Zambia: connectivity and AI adoption
Population denominatorAI adoption (%)
National population12
People with internet access34

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 12

English representation in web content and population

Rounded narrative shares (“half” and “just 5%”). Different denominators; these are not parts of a common whole.

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English representation in web content and population
MeasureShare (%)
Open web content in English50
Native English speakers in world population5

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 12

Further language-access counts

Counts and bounds printed in the report. The detailed language shares in the treemap are not numerically labelled.

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Further language-access counts
MetricValue as stated
Malawi population speaking English fluentlyFewer than 4%
Other spoken languages in web-content illustration7,000+

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 13

Language barrier: numerical claims

Narrative bounds retained; no original detailed data table is supplied.

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Language barrier: numerical claims
MetricValue as stated
Swahili speakersOver 200 million
German/Swahili digital content disparitySwahili has over 500 times less content
AI adoption in low-resource language countries20% lower, controlling for GDP/connectivity
LLM accuracy in EnglishAround 80%
LLM accuracy for some low-resource languages such as YorubaBelow 55%
Yoruba speakers across AfricaMore than 50 million

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 15

Open model ecosystem claim

Narrative claim attributed by report to VentureBeat reference 29.

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Open model ecosystem claim
MetricValue as stated
LLaMA community variant modelsOver 7,000 within months of debut

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 16

AI frontier index and months to frontier

Visually transcribed from original table. Frontier index is normalized; time lag is in months. Original prose rounds Israel lag to 11 months or less than a year.

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AI frontier index and months to frontier
CountryBest modelFrontier indexMonths to frontier
United StatesGPT-5 (high)1.00.0
ChinaDeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Reasoning)0.8415.3
South KoreaEXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)0.8245.9
FranceMagistral Medium 1.20.7897.0
United KingdomGemma 3 27B Instruct0.7687.7
CanadaCommand A0.7677.8
IsraelJamba 1.7 Large0.65111.6

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 17

Installed data center capacity, mid-2025

Visually transcribed original table. Report describes IEA estimates. Region labels preserved; Brazil and Central/South America both appear as printed. The prose claim “US and China 86%” is not supported by treating these rows as disjoint components.

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Installed data center capacity, mid-2025
IEA regionInstalled capacity (GW)
United States53.7
China31.9
European Union11.9
Japan and South Korea6.9
India3.5
Other Asia Pacific3.1
United Kingdom2.6
Australia and New Zealand1.6
Other North America1.5
Africa1.5
Central and South America1.4
Eurasia1.2
Middle East1.1
Brazil0.6

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 18

Additional quantitative claims

Rounded report claims; broad-region exact figures appear in later H2 report. Capacity percentage conflicts with table if its regions are summed. Same claims recur on pages 2–3.

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Additional quantitative claims
MetricValue as stated
AI usersMore than 1.2 billion in under 36 months
People lacking basic AI-access capabilitiesAbout four billion / nearly half of humanity
AI adoption in Global NorthApproximately 23%
AI adoption in Global SouthApproximately 13%
GDP per capita threshold with largest adoption disparitiesBelow $20,000
US and China share of global computeRoughly 86%
Countries hosting frontier-level modelsSeven
Windows devices underlying telemetryOver one billion

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 19

AI diffusion data source

Values visually verified against original H1 appendix and match H1 column in H2 appendix. Rows sorted by printed diffusion; source does not explicitly assign ranks and equal values need not have unique ranks.

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AI diffusion data source
EconomyH1 2025 AI diffusion (%)
United Arab Emirates59.4
Singapore58.6
Norway45.3
Ireland41.7
France40.9
Spain39.7
New Zealand37.6
United Kingdom36.4
Netherlands36.3
Qatar35.7
Australia34.5
Israel33.9
Belgium33.5
Canada33.5
Switzerland32.4
Sweden31.2
Austria29.1
Hungary27.9
Denmark26.6
Germany26.5
Poland26.4
Taiwan26.4
United States26.3
Czechia26.0
South Korea25.9
Italy25.8
Finland25.6
Bulgaria25.4
Jordan25.4
Costa Rica25.1
Lebanon24.8
Slovenia24.6
Saudi Arabia23.7
Oman22.6
Portugal22.4
Jamaica22.2
Slovakia22.1
Dominican Republic22.0
Croatia21.8
Vietnam21.2
Lithuania21.0
Uruguay20.9
Colombia20.4
Panama20.3
Serbia19.7
Chile19.6
South Africa19.3
Malaysia18.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina18.2
Argentina17.8
Kuwait17.7
Greece17.7
Georgia17.3
Philippines17.1
Ecuador17.0
Japan16.7
Mexico16.7
Moldova16.6
Albania15.8
Brazil15.6
China15.4
Romania15.3
El Salvador14.6
India14.2
Azerbaijan14.2
Guatemala13.7
Peru13.4
Türkiye13.4
Namibia13.0
Botswana12.8
Libya12.7
Kazakhstan12.7
Mongolia12.6
Egypt12.5

Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2025-H1.pdf · page 20

AI diffusion data source

Values visually verified against original H1 appendix and match H1 column in H2 appendix. Rows sorted by printed diffusion; source does not explicitly assign ranks and equal values need not have unique ranks.

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AI diffusion data source
EconomyH1 2025 AI diffusion (%)
Honduras12.4
Senegal12.4
Gabon12.3
Nepal12.3
Tunisia12.3
Indonesia11.7
Zambia11.7
Algeria11.3
Bolivia10.9
Côte d’Ivoire10.8
Gambia10.6
Morocco10.5
Iraq10.3
Paraguay10.1
Nicaragua10.0
Pakistan9.7
Iran9.6
Thailand9.1
Ukraine9.1
Angola8.9
Madagascar8.9
Malawi8.9
Mozambique8.9
Lesotho8.8
Benin8.7
Burkina Faso8.7
Ghana8.7
Guinea8.7
Guinea-Bissau8.7
Liberia8.7
Mali8.7
Mauritania8.7
Niger8.7
Nigeria8.7
Sierra Leone8.7
Togo8.7
Myanmar8.4
French Guiana8.3
Guyana8.3
Suriname8.3
Venezuela8.3
Kenya7.8
Belarus7.6
Kyrgyzstan7.6
Russia7.6
Papua New Guinea7.2
Haiti7.1
Cameroon7.0
Central African Republic7.0
Chad7.0
Congo7.0
Congo (DRC)7.0
Zimbabwe6.9
Syria6.7
Bangladesh6.5
Burundi6.4
Eritrea6.4
Ethiopia6.4
Somalia6.4
South Sudan6.4
Sudan6.4
Tanzania6.4
Uganda6.4
Armenia6.2
Sri Lanka6.2
Laos6.0
Rwanda6.0
Uzbekistan5.7
Cuba5.7
Afghanistan5.1
Tajikistan5.1
Turkmenistan5.1
Cambodia4.6