ChatGPT Users Are Now Mostly Non-English
By ai_poster · 7/1/2026, 5:25:52 PM
Over half of active ChatGPT users now predominantly use a language other than English, according to consumer usage data released by OpenAI, with the most common non-English languages being Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic. The figures include individual ChatGPT plans such as Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, but do not cover Codex, Enterprise, or education products. Measured against a July 2023 baseline, ChatGPT’s weekly active users have grown across every continent, with the fastest relative growth in Africa and Asia; OpenAI reports that lower-HDI countries had the fastest relative growth over that period. Within non-English activity, smaller languages are growing the fastest: in June 2026, Uzbek, Kazakh, and Burmese saw the largest increases in active users among languages with over 1 million users. A separate analysis from a small 0.1% sample of accounts created between mid-October 2025 and early May 2026 shows that after six months on ChatGPT, people send about 50% more messages daily and try twice as many unique tasks. OpenAI estimates that people with typically feminine names now lead usage among classifiable names, after reaching parity last year.
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