How ChatGPT adoption has expanded
OpenAI Blog · 2026-06-30
OpenAI publishes new Signals data showing ChatGPT usage has deepened and broadened globally since launch, with users sending 50% more daily messages after six months, fastest relative growth in Africa and Asia, and non-English speakers now comprising over half of active users.
Extraction
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Claims
- Six months after signing up, ChatGPT users send 50% more messages per day and have doubled the number of distinct tasks they try.
- ChatGPT has grown fastest in relative terms in Africa and Asia since July 2023, with lower Human Development Index countries also showing the fastest relative growth in weekly active users.
- Non-English speakers now represent over half of ChatGPT's active users, with Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic as the leading non-English languages.
- Uzbek, Kazakh, and Burmese saw the largest percentage increases in their share of active users since July 2023.
- Usage by people with typically-female names has grown to represent most usage globally, though gender is inferred from names rather than self-reported.
Key quotes
Six months after signing up, users sent 50% more messages per day than they did when they signed up. They also doubled the number of distinct tasks they've tried on ChatGPT.
Users predominantly using a language other than English now represent over half of active users.
In relative terms, the fastest growth has been in Africa and Asia.