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# Nervousness about AI products rose 14 points in India in 2025, the largest increase of 31 countries
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-nervousness-change-by-country/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:56:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:03:48.000Z
- Description: The share of adults in India saying AI products make them nervous rose 14 percentage points between 2024 and 2025, the most of 31 countries. It rose in 19 countries and fell in 10; South Africa fell most (−7).
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Public Opinion on AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-opinion

+14 pts

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Rise in the share of adults in India saying AI products make them nervous, 2024 to 2025, the largest of 31 countries; the global average rose 3 points

Change, points

India14

Hungary11

South Africa\-7

## What the chart shows

Between 2024 and 2025, the share of adults saying products and services using AI make them nervous rose by 14 percentage points in India, the largest increase of the 31 countries in Ipsos’s data, followed by Hungary (+11) and Chile (+9). Over the same period, the share in India saying AI products make them excited rose 2 points.

Nervousness rose in 19 countries, fell in 10 and was unchanged in South Korea and the United States; the global average rose 3 points. The largest falls were in South Africa (−7) and Indonesia (−5).

## Key numbers

| Measure        | Value |
| -------------- | ----- |
| India          | +14   |
| Hungary        | +11   |
| Chile          | +9    |
| Global average | +3    |
| Indonesia      | −5    |
| South Africa   | −7    |

## How to read it

- Percentage-point change in the share agreeing, Ipsos AI Monitor 2024 and 2025\. Data for China was provided to the AI Index by Ipsos separately.
- The global average here rose 3 points, while the AI Index’s year-by-year chart of the same statement shows a 2-point rise (50% to 52%). The two use different averages; we report each file as published.
- The data file covers eight statements; this chart shows nervousness. The others are in the CSV.

**Source:** [Ipsos](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ipsos-ai-monitor), 2024–25, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 9.1.4: *Percentage point change in opinions about AI by country (% agreeing with statement), 2024–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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