−20.3%
change in Estonia's ratio of AI hiring to overall hiring, December 2025 year on year, the lowest of 46 countries

What the chart shows

A positive value means AI talent was being hired faster, relative to all members, than a year earlier. In December 2025 that was true in 40 of the 46 countries LinkedIn tracks, from Indonesia (31.7%) down to Australia (0.4%). The United States was at 9.0%, 22nd.

Six countries were below zero: Estonia (−20.3%), Sweden (−11.6%), Iceland (−10.9%), Slovenia (−5.3%), Lithuania (−1.3%) and Uruguay (−0.4%). The AI Index names Iceland and Sweden as countries where AI hiring has lagged the wider job market since 2018.

Key numbers

MeasureValue
Indonesia31.74%
United States8.97%
Australia0.37%
Sweden−11.56%
Estonia−20.26%

How to read it

  • The measure is the year-on-year change in the AI hiring rate relative to the overall hiring rate on LinkedIn, as a three-month moving average.
  • The data file has monthly values for each country from January 2018; this chart shows the latest month, December 2025. The 15 highest values are also in the top 15 chart.
  • Monthly values swing widely: every country was below zero in at least 28 of the 96 months since January 2018.
Source: LinkedIn, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.16: AI vs. overall hiring rate growth by geographic area, 2018–25. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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