Number of ChatGPT Users and Key Stats (December 2024)

In this up-to-date article, we’ll explore all the latest statistics you’d want to know about, including the current number of users, details from recent studies, growth, and estimated revenue.

• ChatGPT user number

• Top ChatGPT stats

• How many users does ChatGPT have?

• Overview

• ChatGPT user and usage stats

• ChatGPT app stats

• ChatGPT traffic stats

• ChatGPT country stats

• ChatGPT demographic stats

• ChatGPT awareness stats

• ChatGPT education stats

• ChatGPT healthcare stats

• ChatGPT investing stats

Let’s dive into the stats.

ChatGPT has over 180.5 million users

Its user count grew from 100 million in January 2023 to over 180.5 million currently.

The ChatGPT website received 3.66 billion website visitors in October, which is an increase of 17% from September.

Top ChatGPT stats

Sources: Reuters¹, TechCrunch¹, SemiAnalysis, Reuters², Ars Technica, Forbes¹, TechCrunch³, CNET, Similarweb, The Information, Forbes²

Overview

ChatGPT user and usage stats

• According to the Pew Research Center, 23% of U.S. adults say they've used ChatGPT, which is up from 18% in the previous survey.

• According to the Pew Research Center, 23% of U.S. adults say they've used ChatGPT, which is up from 18% in the previous survey.

• In a survey about ChatGPT usage, professionals in marketing had the highest adoption rate (77%), while insurance had the lowest (33%).

• Among Americans, young adults (18-29) have the highest rate of ChatGPT use (43%), while just 6% of older adults (65+) use it.

• A survey of business owners found that 44% plan to use ChatGPT to translate content to other languages, and one in three plan to use it for writing content.

• Customer support agents at a Fortune 500 company were 14% more productive when they were able to use ChatGPT, with gains being even more significant for lower-performing agents.

• A survey of business leaders revealed that 24% of U.S. companies saved $50,001-$75,000 by using ChatGPT. Combined, over half (66%) saved between $5,001-$75,000.

• A medical research study found that ChatGPT writes medical notes 10 times faster than doctors without sacrificing quality.

• Almost a third of U.S. travelers (32%) say they are likely to use ChatGPT to plan their next trip.

  

• 55.22% of visitors to OpenAI’s website are male and 44.78% are female. Those ranging in age from 25-34 years old (33.11%), make up the largest share of visitors.

• 57% of business owners believe that ChatGPT will increase traffic to their websites, and 47% think it will improve their credibility.

• People have difficulty detecting whether they're chatting with GPT-4 or a real human, with GPT-4 being judged as human 54% of the time.

• A survey of American professionals found that 32% worry about AI making some jobs disappear. Almost half (48%) think they could be left behind in their careers.

• 36% of Gen Z feels guilty about using ChatGPT to help them at work and 1 in 3 of them worry about becoming too dependent on it.

• A study measuring divergent thinking and creativity found that GPT-4 gave more original and complex answers than human participants.

• In a study with over 1,900 human participants, ChatGPT showed that it can mimic theory of mind by performing at or above human levels when identifying indirect requests, false beliefs, and misdirection.

• 97% of business owners believe that ChatGPT will help their business in some way.

• A research study shows that the quality of ChatGPT responses can be improved up to 45% by being direct in prompts and offering a tip.

Sources: Forbes¹, Gizmodo, CBS News, Similarweb, Longwoods International, Forbes², OpenAI, HR News, Ars Technica, Arxiv, Axios, University of Arkansas, Forbes³, Pew Research Center, Medical XPress, HR Dive, Statista, Nature, arXiv

ChatGPT app stats

The ChatGPT iOS app racked up 697,000 downloads in the first 8 days following its release. Since then, the combined downloads on iOS and Android have reached over 110 million.

The U.S. has the highest share of ChatGPT downloads (18%), which gives it a slight lead over India (17.5%).

Global downloads of the app leveled out last summer and hit a peak of 20 million per month in November. Further, iOS and Android app downloads average a combined 4 million each week.

In February, almost one year after its release, the ChatGPT app had 3.25 million downloads in the U.S.

Sources: Benzinga, Statista¹, TechCrunch, Statista²

ChatGPT traffic and monthly visitor stats

The ChatGPT website had 3.66 billion visits in October.

• Visitors to ChatGPT view an average of 3.66 pages per visit.

• Each visitor spends an average of 6 minutes and 11 seconds on the website.

Social media traffic

62.07% of traffic is from YouTube, making it the largest source of ChatGPT’s social network traffic. Put another way, 6 in 10 visits are from YouTube.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of the other top social networks that send traffic.

Top marketing channels

Direct visits (71.84%) make up the vast majority of ChatGPT’s traffic. Organic search is the second largest source of traffic, making up 22.59%.

Source: Similarweb

ChatGPT country stats

At 14.58%, the U.S. makes up the largest share of users visiting the ChatGPT website (chatgpt.com).

Second and third place go to India (9.37%) and Brazil (4.88%).

Source: Similarweb

ChatGPT is currently banned in 6 countries:

• Russia
• China
• North Korea
• Cuba
• Iran
• Syria

ChatGPT demographic stats

The makeup of ChatGPT users is 45.34% female and 54.66% male. The largest age group is 25-34 year olds (31.18%), followed by 18-24 year olds (25.43%).

Combined, 18-34 year olds make up over half (56.61%) of the traffic.

Source: Similarweb

ChatGPT awareness stats

According to the Pew Research Center, 58% of U.S. adults have heard something about ChatGPT. Of those, 18% have heard a lot, 39% have heard some, and 42% have heard nothing.

Here's a detailed look at their findings:

Source: Pew Research Center

ChatGPT education stats

• In an exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, GPT-4o correctly solved 13% of problems, while o1 was able to outperform it by solving 83%.

• One in three American teachers , according to a recent survey.

• According to a survey, 19% of U.S. teens ages 13-17 say they've used it for schoolwork. They also found that teens think it's okay to use it for: researching new topics (69%), solving math problems (39%), and writing essays (20%).

• Over 40% of university students say they use ChatGPT for their coursework. 39% of prospective students say they wouldn’t consider going to a college that banned ChatGPT and other AI.

• Half of college students (51%) believe that using AI tools like ChatGPT for coursework and exams is cheating.

• 26% of teachers caught their student cheating by using ChatGPT and 43% think it will make their jobs harder.

• 1 in 3 college students (30%) say they’ve used ChatGPT to complete written assignments.

• GPT-4 took the bar exam and earned a score that puts it in the 90th percentile of test takers.

• According to a recent study from Brigham Young University, ChatGPT flunked an accounting exam, scoring just 47.4%, while students had an average score of 76.7%.

• GPT-4 took the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and managed to score in the 88th percentile.

• When GPT-4 took the SAT, it scored a 1410 on it, putting it in the 94th percentile. For comparison, the average score for the SAT is 1060.

Sources: Forbes, Study.com, Intelligent, Pew Research Center, ABA Journal, Business Insider, BYU, Open AI

ChatGPT healthcare stats

• Research shows that ChatGPT can write medical notes up to 10 times faster than human doctors, without sacrificing quality.

• ChatGPT can analyze medical charts, with one study finding that it was able to convert clinical notes to data with 89% accuracy.

• In a match-up between ChatGPT and Bard, a study showed that Bard performed better, with 53.6% accuracy when answering medical questions, compared to ChatGPT (28.6%).

• Researchers found that ChatGPT has an accuracy of 72% in overall clinical decision-making on textbook case studies.

• A study found that ChatGPT incorrectly diagnosed more than 80% of pediatric case studies.

Sources: U.S. News, UT Southwestern, Elsevier, Axios, The Hill

ChatGPT investing stats

ChatGPT is increasingly being looked at as a source of valuable stock advice. According to The Motley Fool, 47% of Americans have used ChatGPT for stock advice and picks.

The survey also looked at generational differences, finding that over half of millennials (53%) and 50% of Gen Z have used ChatGPT for stock tips. Only 25% of baby boomers have used ChatGPT for stock recommendations.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of use by age group:

They also found that the use of ChatGPT for investment advice changes based on income level, with low-income Americans (23%) being much less likely to use it than high-income (77%).

Note: Income brackets used are: Low income ($0-$49,999) · Middle income ($50,000-$99,999) · High income ($100,000 and above)

• 69% of Americans would consider using ChatGPT for stock advice at some point. At 48%, baby boomers are the least likely to consider using it in the future.

• 55% of men have used ChatGPT for stock picks compared to 42% of women.

• 55% of Americans say they wouldn’t want to rely only on ChatGPT for stock recommendations.

• A study by the University of Chicago found that ChatGPT is accurate 60% of the time when predicting the direction of future earnings, outperforming human analysts who had an accuracy of 53%.

Sources: The Motley Fool, Business Insider, SSRN

Wrapping up

That’s it for my roundup of ChatGPT statistics.

As I look back at 2023, I can't help but think about what ChatGPT will accomplish this year. One potential development that comes to mind is the rumored "Q" model, which may have the ability to solve math problems it has never seen before.

If OpenAI follows the same pace in training new models, we may see a GPT version this year that achieves artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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