Denmark tops OECD ranking: three in ten firms use AI, cloud and data analytics

Denmark has the highest share of firms using artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data analytics together among the countries in the OECD's new Digital Economy and Society Outlook 2026. 29.9 percent of Danish companies with at least ten employees use all three technologies.

Finland comes second at 25.5 percent, followed by the Netherlands at 23.7 percent and Belgium at 22.8 percent. The average is 12.2 percent across the OECD and 11.1 percent across the EU, so Denmark's share is more than double both averages.

The findings come from a press release by IT-Branchen, the Danish IT industry organisation. It says the lead now needs to be turned into better business results and spread to more companies, rather than just being celebrated as a ranking.

To that end, IT-Branchen argues that the next step is to follow the results more closely and ask concrete questions about what the technologies deliver. Do the solutions save time? Do they improve quality? Do they create new products or better service? And where is value actually being created, and what is it being converted into?

IT-Branchen calls the result welcome news and describes Denmark's digital head start as something that should be developed further into a lasting strength for Danish business.