OpenAI releases ChatGPT work activity data across 100 countries

OpenAI has published a country-by-country look at how people actually use ChatGPT. The headline finding: it is turning into a work tool. The release, made public on August 6, 2026, covers work activity across 100 countries. For a product many people first met as a homework helper or trivia machine, the data suggests a quieter career change is underway. What the data shows OpenAI describes this as its first comprehensive country-level analysis of individual ChatGPT usage. It arrives as part of what the company calls its OpenAI Signals individual data update. The dataset spans July 2024 to June 2026. That is two full years of behavior, long enough to separate lasting habits from novelty clicks. It pulls from four account tiers: Free, Go, Plus and Pro. The central finding concerns what people are doing in the chat window. In work contexts, the rate of task completion and creation runs at more than 2x the rate seen in personal use. Personal usage, according to the findings, is still dominated by information-seeking. The headline coverage is 100 countries, though the research notes survey coverage that extends to as many as 147 countries. Who is using it, and where The geographic story ...