Popularity of Chatbots in 2020 by Google search volume

Chatbots are becoming more popular every day, but how popular are they really?

To figure this out, I analyzed how many times ‘chatbot’ was searched on Google across 189 countries.

Here’s what I found:

Every month, there are 235,360 searches to the word ‘chatbot’ (across the globe)
The top 5 countries are the United States (42,000 searches), India (27,000 searches), Brazil (14,000 searches), France (12,000 searches) and Vietnam (12,000 searches).
The popularity of chatbots increased with 23,3%
The fastest growing countries are Vietnam (+ 56%), Peru (+ 46%), Egypt (+43 %), Venezuela (+ 42%) and Taiwan (+ 36%)
There are still 75 countries with no interest in chatbots

Let’s see the results!

Popularity of chatbots across the globe

Here’s a complete world map showing the number of times the word ‘chatbot’ is searched in every country (per month):

Every month, there are 235,360 searches to 'chatbot'

Each month, there are 235,360 searches to the word ‘chatbot’ across the globe.

This means that there are about 2,824,320 searches each year.

Top 5 countries

Just like last year, the United States is the big winner. Every month, the word ‘chatbot’ is searched 42,000 times in the United States.

Runner-ups are India with 27,000 searches, Brazil with 14,000 searches, and France & Vienam with both 12,000 searches.

Popularity of chatbots increases

Last year, there were 194.010 searches to the word ‘chatbot’ across the globe.

This year, it increased to 235,360, showing a growth of 23,3% in popularity to chatbots.

Moreover, these are the fastest-growing countries in the world if it comes to chatbot interest:

75 countries with no interest in chatbots

I 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 75 countries have no interest in chatbots (did not search for it).

Also, there are 60 countries where only 1-500 searches were done to the word ‘chatbot’:

Searches per month	Count
0	75
1-500	60
501-1000	16
1001-5000	26
5001-10000	7
10001-20000	3
20000+	2

This means that there are still a lot of countries that don’t have a lot of interest in chatbots (yet).

What’s also interesting, is that the total global search volume to chatbots increased, but the number of countries in chatbots decreased.

Searches per country

The following table will show you the total searches (per month) per country:

Country	Searches per month
United States	42000
India	27000
Brazil	14000
France	12000
Viet Nam	12000
United Kingdom	10000
Germany	8800
Italy	6300
Spain	6200
Canada	5600
Indonesia	5500
Thailand	5100
Taiwan	4900
Mayotte	4400
Malaysia	4000
Australia	3900
Japan	3300
Poland	3300
Turkey	3100
Netherlands	2700
Morocco	2500
Philippines	2500
Hong Kong	2500
Colombia	2300
Egypt	2300
Argentina	1900
Peru	1900
Singapore	1700
Tunisia	1700
Pakistan	1500
Hungary	1400
Russia	1400
Switzerland	1400
Belgium	1300
Saudi Arabia	1300
Sweden	1300
Austria	1100
United Arab Emirates	1100
Czech Republic	1000
Denmark	1000
South Korea	1000
Chile	900
Algeria	800
Bangladesh	800
Nigeria	800
Romania	800
Ukraine	800
Portugal	700
South Africa	700
Ecuador	600
Finland	600
Israel	600
Kenya	600
Norway	600
Greece	500
Ireland	500
New Zealand	500
Venezuela	Bolivarian Republic of	500
Sri Lanka	400
Slovakia	300
Bulgaria	250
Croatia	250
Mongolia	250
Bolivia	Plurinational State of	200
Costa Rica	200
Jordan	200
Lithuania	200
Uruguay	200
Armenia	150
Cambodia	150
Cote D'Ivoire	150
Dominican Republic	150
Georgia	150
Guatemala	150
Iraq	150
Myanmar	150
Serbia	150
Bosnia and Herzegovina	100
Lebanon	100
Madagascar	100
Nepal	100
Ghana	90
Belarus	80
Estonia	80
Latvia	80
Mauritius	80
Oman	80
Panama	80
Paraguay	80
Kazakhstan	70
Kuwait	70
Libya	70
Azerbaijan	60
Luxembourg	60
Palestine	State of	60
Bahrain	50
Albania	40
El Salvador	40
Macedonia	the Former Yugoslav Republic of	40
Malta	40
Nicaragua	40
Puerto Rico	40
Qatar	40
Slovenia	40
Zimbabwe	40
Cyprus	30
Senegal	30
Tanzania	United Republic of	30
Cameroon	20
Ethiopia	20
Guadeloupe	20
Honduras	20
Jamaica	20
Trinidad and Tobago	20
Afghanistan	0
American Samoa	0
Andorra	0
Angola	0
Anguilla	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0
Bahamas	0
Belize	0
Benin	0
Bhutan	0
Botswana	0
Brunei Darussalam	0
Burkina Faso	0
Burundi	0
Cape Verde	0
Central African Republic	0
Chad	0
Congo	0
Congo	the Democratic Republic of the	0
Cook Islands	0
Djibouti	0
Dominica	0
Fiji	0
Gabon	0
Gambia	0
Greenland	0
Guernsey	0
Guyana	0
Haiti	0
Iceland	0
Jersey	0
Kiribati	0
Kyrgyzstan	0
Lao People's Democratic Republic	0
Lesotho	0
Liechtenstein	0
Malawi	0
Maldives	0
Mali	0
Mexico	0
Micronesia	Federated States of	0
Moldova	Republic of	0
Montenegro	0
Montserrat	0
Mozambique	0
Namibia	0
Nauru	0
Niger	0
Niue	0
Papua New Guinea	0
Pitcairn	0
Rwanda	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
Zambia	0
Tokelau	0
Gibraltar	0
Total	235360