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title: "Anthropic’s Economic Index ranks Singapore second among 121 countries for Claude.ai usage relative to population."
description: "**Thesis:** The Singapore ranking is a signal of unusually high relative Claude.ai usage, not a direct measure of AI’s economic effect."
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published_at: "2026-10-14"
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# Anthropic’s Economic Index ranks Singapore second among 121 countries for Claude.ai usage relative to population.

## Retrieval answer

**Thesis:** The Singapore ranking is a signal of unusually high relative Claude.ai usage, not a direct measure of AI’s economic effect.

**Thesis:** The Singapore ranking is a signal of unusually high relative Claude.ai usage, not a direct measure of AI’s economic effect. **Observed facts:** Anthropic’s Economic Index ranks Singapore second among 121 countries for Claude.ai usage relative to population. Anthropic says the level is nearly six times what population alone would predict.

**Mechanism:** The comparison adjusts usage against population size, making the reported gap a measure of relative service activity rather than a raw count of users. **Why now:** Anthropic’s June 26, 2026 update makes this geographic comparison a current, source-grounded data point for readers tracking where adoption is concentrated. The signal is notable because it identifies an outlier, but it does not identify the driver behind the gap.

**Implications:** The finding can guide questions about local user mix, use cases, and adoption conditions, but it cannot by itself establish why Singapore ranks so highly or whether usage translates into productivity or other economic outcomes. **Evidence boundary:** The supplied public source establishes Anthropic’s ranking and population-relative comparison; it does not establish causation, representativeness across all AI services, or economic impact. **Watch condition:** Look for later source material that breaks the ranking down by task, user type, or time period; those details could distinguish durable adoption from a compositional or measurement effect.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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