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# Models from US developers fell from 73% of top Hugging Face downloads in 2020 to 17% in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/hugging-face-downloads-by-country/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:31:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:26.000Z
- Description: US developers' share of downloads of the top Hugging Face models fell from 73% in 2020 to 17% in 2025, while China's rose from under 1% to 17%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, Open Source AI, AI in the US, AI in China, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models, #lens-us-china, #country-us, #country-china

16.6%

▼ 56.5 pts since 2020

share of top Hugging Face downloads from US developers, 2025; China 16.9%

20202025

## What the chart shows

In 2020, models from US-based developers accounted for 73.1% of downloads of the most popular Hugging Face models. By 2025 their share was 16.6%, slightly below China’s 16.9%, up from 0.8% in 2020.

The largest share in 2025 came from models uploaded by unaffiliated users (32.6%), individuals rather than companies or labs. International or online-only organisations took 23.4%.

## Key numbers

| Measure                    | Value |
| -------------------------- | ----- |
| United States, 2020        | 73.1% |
| United States, 2025        | 16.6% |
| China, 2025                | 16.9% |
| Unaffiliated users, 2025   | 32.6% |
| International/online, 2025 | 23.4% |

## How to read it

- Covers the 200 most-downloaded models each week from March 2020 to August 2025, about half of all filtered downloads (Longpre et al., 2025).
- Other countries combines the UK, Germany, France, India and the remaining countries.
- 2020 starts in Q2 and 2025 ends in Q3.
- In the source data, shares for 2020–2024 add up to 96–99.6% rather than 100%, so those bars stop short of the top.

**Source:** [Longpre et al.](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#longpre-2025-open-intelligence), 2025; [Hugging Face](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#hugging-face), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.7: *Global distribution of downloads among top Hugging Face models, Q2 2020–Q3 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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