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# AI talent concentration on LinkedIn more than doubled in seven countries from 2019 to 2025, led by the UAE
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-talent-concentration-growth/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:26:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:13.000Z
- Description: The share of LinkedIn members who count as AI talent grew 121.2% in the UAE between 2019 and 2025 and 120.4% in India. Seven of the top 15 countries more than doubled.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Jobs, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-jobs

121.2%

#1

rise in the share of LinkedIn members in the UAE who count as AI talent, 2019 to 2025, the fastest of any country tracked

UAE121.2%

India120.4%

Saudi Arabia112.6%

## What the chart shows

Between 2019 and 2025 the share of LinkedIn members who count as AI talent grew fastest in the United Arab Emirates (121.2%), India (120.4%) and Saudi Arabia (112.6%). Cyprus, Portugal, Indonesia and Brazil also more than doubled, with rises of 107.2% to 111.6%.

Turkey had the smallest rise of the 15 countries shown, 75.3%. Fast growth does not mean a high level: of the seven countries that more than doubled, only India and Cyprus are among the 15 with the highest AI talent concentration in 2025.

## Key numbers

| Measure              | Value  |
| -------------------- | ------ |
| United Arab Emirates | 121.2% |
| India                | 120.4% |
| Saudi Arabia         | 112.6% |
| Brazil               | 107.2% |
| Turkey               | 75.3%  |

## How to read it

- Percentage change in AI talent concentration (AI talent as a share of LinkedIn members) between 2019 and 2025\. Levels are in the [concentration chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-talent-concentration-by-country/).
- The AI Index says every country in LinkedIn’s sample grew by at least 75%; the data file lists only these 15 countries, so we cannot check that.

**Source:** [LinkedIn](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#linkedin-economic-graph), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.22: *Percentage change in AI talent concentration by geographic area, 2019 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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