India Country Brief: The Anthropic Economic Index

Source: Anthropic Research Date: 2026-02-16 URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/india-brief-economic-index

Summary

Analysis of ~58,000 Indian Claude.ai conversations from November 2025 (5.8% of global, 101st per capita). India 2nd globally in absolute volume but adoption concentrated in four states’ IT sectors. 45.2% of tasks map to software roles (highest worldwide), 15x productivity speedup vs. 12x global average, on tasks averaging 3.8 hours unassisted. Indian users delegate higher AI autonomy and tackle tasks many couldn’t complete independently.

Implications

The 15x productivity speedup concentrated in India’s IT sector is the headline — Indian software workers are getting more leverage from Claude than the global average, which has implications for global software outsourcing economics. The 101st per-capita ranking against 2nd-absolute ranking tells the concentration story clearly: this isn’t broad adoption, it’s a specific professional segment in a few states. The “tasks many couldn’t complete independently” finding is significant — Claude is extending the task frontier for this population, not just accelerating existing work. Watch whether this concentration pattern holds or disperses as adoption spreads beyond the IT sector into India’s broader professional services economy.