Connectivity
Affordable Internet access and reliable electricity remain the entry point.
In 2025, an estimated 74% of humanity was online. Microsoft estimates that only about one in six working-age people used generative AI. Explore the first race to connect the world, then switch to the new divide in who can use AI.
Built from the initial work in userman12/internet-adoption-map
Eleven chapters connect the changing map to infrastructure, wealth, mobile networks and the new AI divide.
Scroll sideways or use the arrows · open any chapter to see it on the map
Each dot compares a country’s latest available Internet-use estimate, usually 2023 or 2024, with Microsoft’s estimated generative-AI diffusion in H2 2025. Different dates and methods mean this is a directional comparison, not a causal test.
Select a country to open it on the globe. AI diffusion is an adjusted Microsoft telemetry estimate for the working-age population, not a national survey.
The World Bank’s 2025 framework separates the ingredients of meaningful AI participation. These are explanatory dimensions, not a single readiness score.
Affordable Internet access and reliable electricity remain the entry point.
Chips, cloud capacity and data centres are far more concentrated than Internet access.
Models need local languages, data and applications that fit people’s actual needs.
Digital skills determine whether access becomes useful adoption.
Anthropic’s September 2025 Economic Index adds a different lens: within Claude conversations, coding remained the largest task category, while education and scientific use grew. This describes one product’s observed usage, not the share of a country using AI.
Read the Anthropic report ↗Microsoft AI Diffusion Report ↗ · World Bank AI Foundations ↗