1.1%
▲ 0.3 pts vs 2024
share of job postings in Germany that asked for AI skills, 2025
20182025

What the chart shows

These are the 11 countries with lower AI demand of the 22 that Lightcast tracks for the AI Index. In 2025, 1.1% of job postings in Germany asked for AI skills, up from 0.8% in 2024, and 1.0% in France, also up from 0.8%. Both are under half the US share of 2.6%.

Australia had the highest share in this group at 1.8%, followed by Switzerland (1.6%), Mexico (1.4%) and Belgium (1.4%). Croatia was lowest at 0.4%. As in the other group, every country reached its highest share in 2025.

Key numbers

MeasureValue
Germany, 20251.13%
Germany, 20240.84%
France, 20250.99%
Australia, 20251.78%
Switzerland, 20251.59%
Croatia, 20250.38%

How to read it

  • A posting counts as an AI job if it lists at least one of the 300-plus AI skills in Lightcast’s taxonomy. Shares are of all online job postings Lightcast collects in each country.
  • The other 11 countries, including the US, are in the companion chart. Series for Mexico start in 2020, and for Croatia, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland in 2018.
  • Lightcast revises historical counts, so earlier values may differ from previous AI Index editions.
Source: Lightcast, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.2: AI job postings (% of all job postings) by select geographic areas, 2014–25 (part 2). Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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