Anthropic’s Economic Index reveals that Canada punches far above its weight in Claude adoption — it represents 2.6% of global Claude.

ai traffic and ranks second only to the United States in usage per capita among the top ten countries by volume.

The headline number is striking: Canada‘s Anthropic AI Usage Index sits at 4.

4, meaning Claude usage per capita is more than four times what you’d expect from its working-age population alone.

What makes this interesting is not just the raw adoption, but the way it exposes how economic structure, not just wealth, drives AI uptake.