India Ranks Among Top Claude Users But Anthropic Flags Widening AI Divide
India is one of the five largest markets for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude, but the company’s latest Economic Index shows that how countries use AI still closely follows income and education levels.
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India is one of the five biggest markets for Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, according to the company’s latest Economic Index report, a data release that also warns that richer countries’ heavier and broader AI use could widen global inequality.
The report, based on privacy preserving analysis of 1 million Claude.ai conversations and 1 million first party API records from 13–20 November 2025, lists the US, India, Japan, the UK and South Korea as the leading countries for Claude.ai use.
For India, the finding underlines a familiar reality that a large technical workforce and a fast growing digital services economy can put the country near the top of global usage charts even as per capita adoption, and the quality of access, may lag richer markets.
“Worldwide, uneven adoption remains well explained by GDP per capita,” the researchers wrote, adding that there is “no evidence that low use countries are catching up or that high use countries are pulling away.”
Anthropic’s analysis suggests that how countries use AI shifts as adoption matures. Coursework is most common in the lowest income countries, while richer countries show the highest rates of personal use, which the report frames as an adoption curve where early users in poorer markets tend to be more technical or education oriented.
That pattern matters for India’s policy and labor debates as it hints at a double divide. One sits between countries. Another sits within them, between workers and students who can use AI effectively and those who cannot.
Anthropic points to education as a key lever. The report says the “close relationship” between the education level of prompts and responses indicates that “countries with higher educational attainment may be better positioned to benefit from AI, independent of adoption rates alone.”
The report also tries to quantify productivity effects, while cautioning that reliability and task bottlenecks can curb gains.
In a reprise of earlier work, Anthropic estimates that widespread adoption of AI could lift US labor productivity growth by about 1.8 percentage points a year over the next decade, based on observed time savings.
When adjusted for whether the model actually completes tasks successfully, the implied boost drops to about 1.2 percentage points for Claude.ai usage and about 1.0 percentage point for API traffic.
Indian IT services firms, startups and back office operations have been among the most aggressive adopters of automation tools, and the report notes that enterprise API usage is heavily work oriented and more directive, which is consistent with using models to automate repeatable workflows.
