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# East Asia and the Pacific produced 26% of AI publications in 2024, twice Europe and Central Asia
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-publications-by-world-region/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:30:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:18.000Z
- Description: East Asia and the Pacific produced 26.4% of AI publications in 2024, against 13.5% for Europe and Central Asia and 8.2% for North America.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Research, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-research

26.4%

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East Asia and Pacific's share of 2024 AI publications; Sub-Saharan Africa 0.8%

East Asia and Pacific26.4%

Europe and Central Asia13.5%

South Asia8.3%

## What the chart shows

By World Bank region, East Asia and the Pacific produced 26.4% of AI publications in 2024, about twice Europe and Central Asia (13.5%). South Asia (8.3%) slightly exceeded North America (8.2%).

Sub-Saharan Africa (0.8%) and Latin America and the Caribbean (1.2%) produced the least. For 37.3% of publications the region is unknown.

## Key numbers

| Measure                 | Value |
| ----------------------- | ----- |
| East Asia and Pacific   | 26.4% |
| Europe and Central Asia | 13.5% |
| South Asia              | 8.3%  |
| North America           | 8.2%  |
| Sub-Saharan Africa      | 0.8%  |
| Unknown                 | 37.3% |

## How to read it

- Regions follow World Bank groupings.
- The unknown share rose sharply in 2024, which the AI Index attributes to metadata coverage, so compare regions with each other rather than with earlier years.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.6.7: *AI publications in CS (% of total) by region, 2013–24*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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