India has officially dethroned the US as ChatGPT’s largest mobile user base, accounting for a whopping 13.5% of all monthly active users globally. The US trails behind at 8.9%, followed by Indonesia and Brazil.
That surge is powered by India’s mobile-first digital economy, where over 800 million internet users are now experimenting with AI tools via their phones.
While most Western markets remain desktop-heavy, India’s ChatGPT use is shaped by younger, digital-native users accessing bite-sized help in education, coding, and job prep.
The surge is so sharp that OpenAI is now eyeing a data centre in India to handle the traffic and bring data storage closer to home.
