Generative AI Adoption by Industry

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Generative AI Adoption by Industry
This chart ranks major industries by the share of companies that reported using generative AI in at least one business function as of 2024.
Analysis

The technology sector leads all industries in generative AI adoption at 88%, a reflection of its proximity to AI development and early access to tools. Professional services (80%), advanced industries (79%), and media and telecom (79%) form a second tier of high adopters. More regulated or operationally complex sectors like financial services (65%) and healthcare (63%) show meaningful but lower adoption, likely due to compliance requirements and risk sensitivity. Energy and materials lag at 59%, suggesting that GenAI's current strengths in language and content generation map less naturally onto capital-intensive, process-driven industries. Overall, adoption is substantial across all sectors, signaling that GenAI is becoming industry-agnostic.

Source:  McKinsey & Company

Key Findings

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Technology leads in Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) with 88 in 2024.
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Average Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) in 2024: 73  ·  median: 74.
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Gap in 2024: Technology is 1.5× larger than Energy and Materials.

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points
8
8 categories  ·  1 year
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Top Value
88
Technology
Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · 2024
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Metrics
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Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%)
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Period
2024
Single year snapshot

Methodology & source

Data source
McKinsey & Company
Coverage
8 entities · 2024 · 8 observations
Measure
Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%)
Last updated
29 June 2026
Compiled by
The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
  • Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
  • Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Share of Companies Using Generative AI (%) · ranked by 2024

✓ 8 sourced
# Category 2024 Source
🥇 Technology 88
🥈 Professional Services 80
🥉 Advanced Industries 79
4 Media and Telecom 79
5 Consumer Goods and Retail 68
6 Financial Services 65
7 Healthcare 63
8 Energy and Materials 59

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

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