# OpenAI's First Country-Level Usage Data Shows Fastest Growth Outside Its Established Markets

Peru, Uruguay and Costa Rica rose the most in the second-quarter rankings, and multimedia messages reached 7.8 percent of the global total after the April image model update.

- Published: 2026-08-10T06:21:58.349Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-10/openai-s-first-country-level-usage-data-shows-fastest-growth
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- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/how-the-world-is-putting-chatgpt-to-work/)

OpenAI published country-level ChatGPT usage statistics for the second quarter of 2026 through Signals, the platform run by its economic research group. The Russian-language technical channel AI ML Big Data summarized the release and noted…

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