Anthropic releases an interactive “Economic Index” tool tracking the usage of Claude AI in 116 countries. The latest data shows that 49% of jobs worldwide have over a quarter of their tasks covered by AI; Taiwan ranks 39th. Readers can also input their own occupation to see the proportion of tasks replaced by AI.
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How much of your work has AI quietly taken over? This is no longer a hypothetical question. Anthropic, Claude’s parent company, recently updated the “Anthropic Economic Index,” an interactive tool compiling real conversation data from 1 million interactions via Claude.ai and first-party APIs, spanning 116 countries and 51 US states, allowing anyone to search AI penetration in specific occupations.
Anthropic data indicates: 49% of jobs worldwide have at least 25% of their tasks covered by AI. This proportion was only 36% in January 2025, increasing by 13 percentage points in just over a year.
More notably, the “collaboration vs. replacement” balance is shifting. Currently, augmented (human-AI collaboration) accounts for 52%, while automation (full replacement) accounts for 45%. However, as of August 2025, automation slightly leads at 49% versus 47%.
In other words, AI is shifting from “stealing your job” to “working with you,” at least for now.
In terms of usage distribution, Coding accounts for 35% of Claude interactions, making it the largest single use case. Experienced users also show advantages: users who have used Claude for over 6 months have a 10% higher success rate in tasks and a 7 percentage point higher proportion of work-related use.
Taiwan ranks 39th among 116 countries, with a usage index of 1.66 times: meaning Taiwanese users utilize Claude 1.66 times more frequently than the global average, based on 5,930 conversation samples.
What do Taiwanese users most often use Claude for?
By occupation category, the computer and mathematics field accounts for 24.4% of total usage, far surpassing the second-place office administrative support (5.9%) and arts, design, media (5.7%). Next are education and teaching (5.2%) and life and social sciences (1.6%).
The Anthropic Economic Index is not just a report but an interactive query tool. Simply visit the homepage, enter your occupation (e.g., “Software Developer,” “Financial Analyst”), and you can see:
Although I personally feel this data might be underestimated compared to my own experience (possibly due to my echo chamber), it at least provides a more concrete benchmark than just intuition: how much of your work has been replaced by AI, and which tasks are done with AI assistance?