OpenAI publishes country-by-country data on how people put ChatGPT to work

On August 6, 2026, OpenAI published an OpenAI Signals release with country-by-country data on ChatGPT usage. The company reports that work-oriented task completion is more than twice as common at work as outside work, multimedia use reached 7.8% of messages globally, and adoption continued to spread beyond early-adopter regions. These figures are OpenAI's own analysis of its ChatGPT data.

OpenAI Signals country-level usage release

• ▪OpenAI reports that ChatGPT users are more than twice as likely to use it to complete a task or create something at work than outside work.
• ▪OpenAI reports that multimedia use accounted for 7.8% of ChatGPT messages globally in the release's measurements.
• ▪OpenAI published new country-level ChatGPT usage data on August 6, 2026.

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