Aussie AI Blog

AI Research by Country

3rd March, 2025

by David Spuler, Ph.D.

AI Research by Country

Which country does the most AI research? Aussie AI has some unique statistics on this, as we maintain a repository of over 15,000 AI research papers covering over 500 AI optimization techniques. Hence, we get a lot of worldwide website traffic to those pages.

The per-country analysis below assumes that such traffic is mainly from AI researchers in industry and academia, and is thus a rough proxy for the amount of research activity in each country.

Analysis of our logs shows these interesting country statistics. The geo stats are abnormal for an English-language website, which would typically have mostly English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, India, Australia/New Zealand). However, there's nothing normal about AI!

Top 10 AI Research Countries

Here's the Top 10 countries and regions from the last month shown here, as calculated by Google Analytics reporting:

USA (35%)
China (12%)
India (6%)
Germany (4%)
Japan (3%)
South Korea (3%)
Hong Kong (2%)
United Kingdom (2%)
Australia (2%)
Canada (2%)

The pattern is mostly stable the last 12 months: USA #1 with about 3x or 4x China/HK at #2, and China traffic about 2x India at #3 and then everyone else.

It's surprising to see UK/Canada so low and other non-English-speaking countries high (Germany/Japan/Korea). Notably, France (#13) is below Germany (#4), despite having an active AI industry with frontier model company Mistral, but Germany has several large tech companies working in AI.

It's also a pleasant surprise to see Australia so high at #9 in the list. Admittedly it's over-represented here due to extra hits on our name "Aussie AI" because Australians are more likely to search for queries like "Aussie AI News" or similar. Hence, Australia probably should rank below Canada if such traffic is excluded.

Top 25 AI Research Countries

Rounding out the top 25 countries and regions, here's the rest of the list:

Netherlands (2%)
Singapore (2%)
France (2%)
Russia (1%)
Taiwan (1%)
Spain (1%)
Brazil (1%)
Italy (1%)
Vietnam (1%)
Israel (1%)
Switzerland (1%)
Turkiye (1%)
Poland (1%)
Portugal (1%)
Belgium (1%)

Limitations

The main limitation of this analysis is obvious: Aussie AI is all written in English, as are almost all of the cited research papers herein. Hence, it would seem likely that AI researchers in non-English speaking countries and regions are probably doing more searching in their native language, and are under-counted by this analysis.