As the use of AI chatbots becomes widespread, Claude users, on average, show a pattern of interest in knowledge-intensive topics, as reflected in their conversations on the platform.
Today’s visualization shows leading occupational categories by overall usage, with all figures rounded.
It comes from the Anthropic Economic Index report (Claude’s parent company).
Anthropic tracked data spanning from December 2024 to August 2025
TL;DR
- Computer and mathematical tasks top Claude user queries with 36%, clearly dominating all other categories.
For this explainer, we focus on Claude AI usage, without the API usage metric.
Ranked: Claude Usage Share Among Occupational Categories
Claude users processed more computer and math tasks, which accounted for 36% of their queries. This progression also extended to other areas of use.
| wdt_ID | wdt_created_by | wdt_created_at | wdt_last_edited_by | wdt_last_edited_at | Occupation Categories | Usage share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Computer & Mathematical | 36 |
| 2 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Educational Instruction & Library | 12 |
| 3 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Arts, Ent., Design, Sports, and Media | 8 |
| 4 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Office and Administrative Support | 8 |
| 5 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Life, Physical & Social Science | 7 |
| 6 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Business & Financial Operations | 3 |
| 7 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Management | 3 |
| 8 | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Monica Ebunoluwa | 27/04/2026 01:32 PM | Sales and related | 2 |
Educational uses increased from 9% last year (as reported in the V1 report) to 12%, indicating that more schools, teachers, and students are now relying on Claude for academic tasks.
Science-related queries also increased slightly, from 6% to 7%, indicating they were a popular choice for research.
However, queries related to business and management dropped from about 5% and 6%, respectively, in V1 to only 3% each in V3.
People are increasingly using Claude for educational, scientific, and technical purposes as its features continue to improve.
UPDATE: Two new reports are now available: V4 (January 2026) and V5 (March 2026). The January 2026 report showed that Computer and Mathematical tasks on Claude.AI dropped to 35%
ELI5
Claude’s user query trends are a snapshot of what people ask the chatbot to do most.
So far, its users rely on the AI tool for computer and math-related problems. However, more people are now using it for education and science, while fewer are using it for business and management.
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