Kenya has been ranked number one globally in ChatGPT usage, according to the July 2025 Global digital Report, published by DataReportal and Meltwater.
The report, released this week, signals a shift in how AI is being integrated into everyday life across Kenya, and reflects the country’s rapidly growing digital landscape.
The report shows that 42.1% of Kenya’s internet users, aged 16 and above, used ChatGPT in the past month; higher than any other country.
The report places Kenya ahead of traditionally tech-forward countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (42%), Israel (41.4%), Malaysia (39.8%), and Brazil (39.7%). Last in the rankings are Russia at 10.8%, China at 7.3% and Japan at 5.8%.
The report also ranks Kenya third globally in ChatGPT website traffic, contributing 4.81% of global visits, behind only the U.S. and India.
Analysts attribute Kenya’s adoption of ChatGPT to two key factors.
The first being Kenya’s young, tech-savvy population. With a median age of just 20 years, Kenya has one of the youngest populations in the world. Many of whom are actively exploring AI tools for education, business, and content creation.
The second factor is that over 48% of Kenya’s population uses mobile internet regularly, making AI tools like ChatGPT highly accessible, even in semi-urban and rural regions.
The report comes just a few days after OpenAI shared new data revealing just how many prompts ChatGPT handles daily. According to the company, the platform receives over 2.5 billion prompts globally.
While OpenAI didn’t specify how these prompts break down by use case, ChatGPT continues to be popular for tasks ranging from writing and coding to brainstorming, tutoring, and casual querying.
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