{"id":145914,"date":"2026-08-20T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/145914\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:25:10","slug":"india-is-the-no-2-market-for-claude-here-is-who-is-using-it-and-who-isnt-explained-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/145914\/","title":{"rendered":"India is the No. 2 market for Claude. Here is who is using it, and who isn\u2019t | Explained News"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Aug 20, 2026 02:23 PM IST<\/p>\n

India is the second-largest market for Anthropic\u2019s Claude AI by overall usage, but ranks near the bottom globally when that usage is adjusted for the size of its working-age population. The finding highlights how adoption of the chatbot remains limited to a relatively small section of users in the country \u2014 and India\u2019s per-capita income may have a role to play.<\/p>\n

According to Anthropic<\/a>\u2019s latest Economic Index, India ranks 101st among 116 countries in Claude usage per working-age person. The gap between India\u2019s high aggregate usage and its low per-capita ranking suggests that the country\u2019s position as one of Claude\u2019s biggest markets is driven largely by its population size, rather than widespread adoption of the AI tool across workers and consumers. \u201cThis gap suggests that India\u2019s high Claude use overall reflects the sheer size of its population, not that the average person is using Claude heavily,\u201d Anthropic said.<\/p>\n

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As of 2025, India\u2019s per capita income is $2,702 (Rs 2,58,548) per year. For reference, the per capita income of Bangladesh is $2,597 while that of Sri Lanka is around $5,000. The US has a per capita income of around $90,000.<\/p>\n

Snapshot of India\u2019s AI use<\/p>\n

The findings point to a broader challenge for AI adoption in India, where access to and use of advanced AI tools remains uneven despite the country\u2019s large technology workforce and the government\u2019s push to expand domestic AI capabilities.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s analysis shows that higher-income countries generally record greater Claude usage per person, with factors such as income, access to digital infrastructure and awareness of AI tools likely influencing adoption.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobally, per-capita AI adoption is strongly correlated with per-capita income. India\u2019s per-capita use is consistent with what this relationship would predict. Without addressing structural barriers related to income, digital infrastructure, and awareness outside the IT sector, Indian AI adoption is likely to remain concentrated,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The data also suggests that Claude\u2019s use in India is currently more closely linked to professional and technical work than broad-based consumer adoption. This could limit the extent to which productivity gains from generative AI spread across sectors, particularly outside technology-heavy occupations and major economic centres.<\/p>\n

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It is worth noting that Anthropic\u2019s analysis is based on Claude usage and may not be a measure of overall AI adoption in India, though it is one of the most popular AI companies in the world.<\/p>\n

The Indian states using Claude<\/p>\n

Claude use in India is concentrated in a few economically high-performing states. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Delhi together account for over half of India\u2019s total Claude use \u2014 and \u201cthis pattern closely mirrors India\u2019s IT sector geography and urban economic output,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe concentration in these four states\u2014home to Bengaluru<\/a>, Hyderabad<\/a>, Chennai<\/a>, Mumbai<\/a>, and Delhi NCR\u2014suggests that current AI adoption is driven primarily by India\u2019s established technology workforce rather than broad-based consumer uptake,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The primary reasons that Indians are using Claude also reflect that gap. Anthropic said the occupational mix of Indian Claude AI use, inferred by mapping tasks to related occupations, skews towards software development and engineering roles, consistent with the country\u2019s large IT services sector. \u201cBroadening AI\u2019s economic impact will require looking beyond software and IT services,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

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The most common O*NET tasks, which are specific, occupation-focused work activities that describe what a worker actually does on the job, performed by Indian users show that a significant portion of them use Claude AI to modify existing software, followed by those who use it to write new programmes, and design websites.<\/p>\n

In fact, 45.2% of tasks map to software-related occupations, the highest share of any country.<\/p>\n

Claude is helping Indians work faster<\/p>\n

Anthropic said that Indian users take, on average, 14.8 minutes to complete tasks with AI that would take 3.8 hours without AI \u2014 a 15x speedup. Around 51.3% of Indian users\u2019 Claude.ai use is work-related, compared to 46% globally. Coursework accounts for 20.9% (vs. 19.3% globally) and personal use for 27.8% (vs. 34.7% globally), the company said.<\/p>\n

Indian users were also found to delegate more decision-making autonomy to AI (3.60 vs. 3.38 globally on a 1\u20135 scale, where 1 means no delegation and 5 means extreme delegation). This suggests greater willingness to let AI operate independently rather than using it purely as an assistant, with data also showing that Indian users more frequently bring tasks to AI that they could not easily accomplish independently.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHigher autonomy scores, longer baseline task times, and frequent use for tasks humans could do alone suggest that Indian professionals are trusting AI to make decisions and using it to enhance human capabilities,\u201d Anthropic said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Aug 20, 2026 02:23 PM IST India is the second-largest market for Anthropic\u2019s Claude…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39515,71780,53,3154,71776,71774,182,71773,71778,71772,71775,17570,55074,71779,71777],"class_list":["post-145914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai-adoption-in-india","tag-ai-adoption-per-capita","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-anthropic-claude-users","tag-anthropic-economic-index","tag-claude","tag-claude-ai-india","tag-claude-ai-usage-by-state","tag-claude-ai-usage-in-india","tag-claude-usage-per-capita","tag-express-explained","tag-india-ai-adoption","tag-india-ai-workforce","tag-india-generative-ai-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}