Chatbots become more popular every day. More and more businesses are using them and many people think one day every business will have a chatbot.
But, how popular are chatbots really? Like, what are the actual numbers?
To figure this out, I looked at how many times the word ‘chatbot’ is Googled in 2019. There is a total of 189 countries I could get data from (e.g. no China) to look for trends.
The results are shown in the following world-map (there is also a higher-resolution version):
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There are 194.010 searches to the word 'chatbot' each month
In total, if you combine all searches all over the world, the word ‘chatbot’ is searched 194.010 times each month.
This means that there are about 2.328.120 searches each year.
The top 5 countries
As expected, the United States is the big winner. Every month, the word ‘chatbot’ is searched 36.000 times in the United States.
Runner-ups are India with 20.000 searches, France with 13.000 searches, Brazil with 10.000 searches and the United Kingdom with 7.700 searches per month.
52 countries with no interest in chatbots
We divided the countries according to searches to ‘chatbot’ in 7 groups:
- 0 searches
- 1-500 searches
- 501-1000 searches
- 1001-5000 searches
- 5001-10.000 searches
- 10.001-20.000 searches
- 20.000+ searches
What the data shows, is that 50 countries have no interest in chatbots (did not search for it).
Also, there are 85 countries where only 1-500 searches were done to the word ‘chatbot’.
This means that there are still a lot of countries that don’t have a lot of interest in chatbots (yet).
| Searches per month | Count |
|---|---|
| 0 | 52 countries |
| 1-500 | 85 countries |
| 501-1000 | 16 countries |
| 1001-5000 | 28 countries |
| 5001-10.000 | 5 countries |
| 10.001-20.000 | 2 countries |
| 20.000+ | 1 country |
Searches per country
The following table will show you the total searches per country:
| Country | Searches per month |
|---|---|
| United States | 36000 |
| India | 20000 |
| France | 13000 |
| Brazil | 10000 |
| United Kingdom | 7700 |
| Viet Nam | 7500 |
| Germany | 7400 |
| Italy | 5600 |
| Taiwan, Province of China | 4600 |
| Canada | 4500 |
| Indonesia | 4500 |
| Spain | 4100 |
| Japan | 3600 |
| Australia | 3500 |
| Mexico | 3100 |
| Thailand | 3100 |
| South Korea | 3000 |
| Hong Kong | 3000 |
| Malaysia | 2400 |
| Netherlands | 2400 |
| Turkey | 2300 |
| Poland | 2100 |
| Philippines | 1900 |
| Singapore | 1800 |
| Switzerland | 1600 |
| Hungary | 1500 |
| Austria | 1300 |
| Belgium | 1300 |
| Colombia | 1300 |
| Sweden | 1300 |
| Denmark | 1200 |
| North Korea | 1200 |
| Morocco | 1200 |
| Peru | 1200 |
| Argentina | 1100 |
| Egypt | 1100 |
| Pakistan | 1000 |
| Russia | 1000 |
| Tunisia | 1000 |
| Czech Republic | 930 |
| United Arab Emirates | 800 |
| Chile | 700 |
| Israel | 700 |
| Norway | 700 |
| Saudi Arabia | 700 |
| South Africa | 700 |
| Finland | 600 |
| New Zealand | 600 |
| Nigeria | 600 |
| Portugal | 600 |
| Romania | 600 |
| Ukraine | 600 |
| Bangladesh | 500 |
| Algeria | 450 |
| Greece | 450 |
| Ireland | 450 |
| Ecuador | 400 |
| Bulgaria | 350 |
| Kenya | 350 |
| Sri Lanka | 350 |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 350 |
| Croatia | 300 |
| Mongolia | 300 |
| Slovakia | 300 |
| Costa Rica | 250 |
| Jordan | 250 |
| Serbia | 250 |
| Cote D'Ivoire | 200 |
| Iraq | 200 |
| Lebanon | 200 |
| Lithuania | 200 |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 150 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 150 |
| Dominican Republic | 150 |
| Georgia | 150 |
| Ghana | 150 |
| Guatemala | 150 |
| Slovenia | 150 |
| Uruguay | 150 |
| Cameroon | 100 |
| Estonia | 100 |
| Latvia | 100 |
| Libya | 100 |
| Luxembourg | 100 |
| Madagascar | 100 |
| Nepal | 100 |
| Senegal | 100 |
| Armenia | 90 |
| Belarus | 90 |
| El Salvador | 90 |
| Mauritius | 90 |
| Palestine, State of | 90 |
| Kuwait | 80 |
| Panama | 80 |
| Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of | 70 |
| Nicaragua | 70 |
| Paraguay | 70 |
| Albania | 60 |
| Kazakhstan | 60 |
| Moldova, Republic of | 60 |
| Cambodia | 50 |
| Malta | 50 |
| Cyprus | 40 |
| Jamaica | 40 |
| Oman | 40 |
| Ethiopia | 30 |
| Guadeloupe | 30 |
| Honduras | 30 |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 30 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 30 |
| Cape Verde | 20 |
| Puerto Rico | 20 |
| Qatar | 20 |
| Zimbabwe | 20 |
| Andorra | 10 |
| Angola | 10 |
| Azerbaijan | 10 |
| Bahrain | 10 |
| Benin | 10 |
| Botswana | 10 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 10 |
| Burkina Faso | 10 |
| Congo | 10 |
| Congo, the Democratic Republic of the | 10 |
| Djibouti | 10 |
| Gabon | 10 |
| Guinea | 10 |
| Haiti | 10 |
| Iceland | 10 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 10 |
| Lao People's Democratic Republic | 10 |
| Malawi | 10 |
| Montenegro | 10 |
| Mozambique | 10 |
| Namibia | 10 |
| Rwanda | 10 |
| Zambia | 10 |
| Afghanistan | 0 |
| American Samoa | 0 |
| Anguilla | 0 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 0 |
| Bahamas | 0 |
| Belize | 0 |
| Bhutan | 0 |
| Burundi | 0 |
| Central African Republic | 0 |
| Chad | 0 |
| Cook Islands | 0 |
| Dominica | 0 |
| Fiji | 0 |
| Gambia | 0 |
| Greenland | 0 |
| Guernsey | 0 |
| Jersey | 0 |
| Kiribati | 0 |
| Lesotho | 0 |
| Liechtenstein | 0 |
| Maldives | 0 |
| Mali | 0 |
| Micronesia, Federated States of | 0 |
| Montserrat | 0 |
| Myanmar | 0 |
| Nauru | 0 |
| Niger | 0 |
| Niue | 0 |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 |
| Pitcairn | 0 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | 0 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 |
| Samoa | 0 |
| San Marino | 0 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 0 |
| Seychelles | 0 |
| Sierra Leone | 0 |
| Solomon Islands | 0 |
| Somalia | 0 |
| Suriname | 0 |
| Tajikistan | 0 |
| Timor-Leste | 0 |
| Togo | 0 |
| Tonga | 0 |
| Turkmenistan | 0 |
| Uganda | 0 |
| Uzbekistan | 0 |
| Vanuatu | 0 |
| Virgin Islands, British | 0 |
| Virgin Islands, U.S. | 0 |
| Tokelau | 0 |
| Gibraltar | 0 |
| Total | 194010 |
Where do you live?
Now a question for you: Where do you live?
And do you think the searches in your country reflect the popularity of chatbots?
Leave a comment!
Note: If you want the actual data, you can find a CSV file here. For the grouped data, we have another CSV file.