Skopje, 11 February 2026 (MIA) - According to Eurostat’s 2025 data, 45.4% of young people aged 16–24 in North Macedonia use AI tools, compared with the EU average of 63.8%.

Among EU countries, the highest shares of people aged 16-24 using generative AI tools were recorded in Greece (83.5%), Estonia (82.8%) and Czechia (78.5%). The lowest shares were in Romania (44.1%), Italy (47.2%) and Poland (49.3%).

Among countries in the region, 65.4 percent of young people use AI tools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 58.2 percent in Croatia, 50 percent in Bulgaria and 47 percent in Serbia.

Both in the EU and in North Macedonia, young people up to the age of 24 use AI almost twice as much as the general population aged 16 to 74.

The use of generative AI for private purposes was more common among young people (44.2%) than among the general population (25.1%). As expected, people in the younger age group were more likely to use AI tools for formal education (39.3%), compared with 9.4% in the general population. In contrast, the professional use was relatively similar between these age groups (15.8% vs 15.1%), as many young people have yet to enter the labour market, the Eurostat reports.

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