> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://en.thevietmedia.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Vietnam Uses Claude at Half the Expected Rate, and Mostly for Coding - URL: https://en.thevietmedia.net/vietnam-claude-usage-economic-index/ - Published: 2026-08-31T09:37:20.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-31T09:37:29.000Z - Description: The same dataset puts Taiwan at 2.08x expected usage and Vietnam at 0.53x. The gap is nearly fourfold, and the mix is different too: Vietnamese users lean on Claude for coding and technical reference, while business and investing use is just getting started. - Author: The Viet Media - Tags: Vietnam, Vietnam Economy, Technology, AI, Southeast Asia \[Vietnam Uses Claude at Half the Expected Rate, and Mostly for Coding\] Anthropic publishes an interactive dataset called the Anthropic Economic Index, which lays out how people in 121 economies use Claude, its AI assistant: how much, for what, and in which occupations. The latest update is from June 2026\. Taiwan sits in the upper tier, using Claude at 2.08 times what its population would predict, ranking 31st worldwide. Switch the page to Vietnam and the picture inverts: 0.53x, ranked 84th. The index itself is simple. Take an economy's share of global Claude usage and divide it by its share of the global working-age population (ages 15 to 64). A score of 1 means usage matches population size. Taiwan's 2.08 means twice the expected level; Vietnam's 0.53 means half. Within Southeast Asia, the ranking runs like this: Singapore at 5.81x, second in the world behind Australia's 6.40x; Malaysia at 0.87x (67th) and Thailand at 0.73x (70th); then Vietnam at 0.53x, followed by Indonesia at 0.46x and the Philippines at 0.44x. Anthropic quantified the income link in its September 2025 report: a 1% increase in GDP per working-age capita is associated with roughly 0.7% more Claude usage per capita. By that rule, Vietnam's rank lands about where its income level would put it — and it still sits ahead of Indonesia and the Philippines, its closest peers by income. What do Vietnamese users actually do with Claude? The top of the list looks ordinary: homework leads at 6.2%, followed by promotional writing at 4.8%, business operations at 4.6%, web front-end work at 4.3%, and resume or self-presentation writing at 3.8%. The sixth through tenth spots, each between 2% and 3.3%, go to starting a business, code design, slide decks, math and computer science theory, and workplace writing. Vietnam's real signature shows up in a different table: the topics Vietnamese users engage with far more than the global average. Code design runs at 1.9 times the global norm, reference documentation at 1.6x, math and CS theory at 1.5x, instructional design and other software development at 1.4x each, with document transformation, web front-end and AI app building close behind. Of the top ten, only promotional writing (1.2x) is not about software engineering or teaching. The occupational breakdown points the same way. Conversations tied to computer and mathematical occupations make up 29.3% of Vietnam's Claude usage, the largest share of any job group. The second-largest, arts, design, entertainment, sports and media at 15.0%, is high almost everywhere — Taiwan posts 12.8% — so it says little about Vietnam specifically. Anthropic itself flagged Vietnam in the September 2025 report: among economies in the lower usage tier, Vietnam records the highest total usage, and its requests concentrate disproportionately on software development and education. The report reads this as local specialization. Set Taiwan's numbers beside Vietnam's and the difference comes into focus. In both places, computer and mathematical occupations dominate — 27.9% in Taiwan, 29.3% in Vietnam. The gap lies outside engineering. Taiwan's most common use is business operations at 5.9%, and buying and investing ties for third at 3.4%. In Vietnam, homework tops the list and investing does not crack the top ten. Taiwan's 2.08x comes from usage spreading beyond engineers, to office workers running companies and researching investments. Vietnam's usage rests mainly on engineers and students; business and investing use is just getting started. One caveat about scope: this index counts conversations on a single platform. It excludes ChatGPT, Gemini and every other service, so it cannot stand in for a measure of overall AI adoption in Vietnam. Still, the structure it reveals is worth reading against Vietnam's official plans. Back in December 2024, the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam issued Resolution 57, which made science, technology and digital transformation a national priority, including a goal of placing Vietnam among Southeast Asia's top three in AI research and development by 2030\. The same month, NVIDIA signed an agreement with the Vietnamese government in Hanoi to set up an AI research and development center, with Viettel building an AI data center on NVIDIA's technology. The engineering talent shows up clearly in the usage data. The gap between 0.53 and 1 sits mostly in everyday business settings, and how fast those settings adopt AI will decide how much of that gap closes. — 📢 **A quick word from our sponsor** Heading to Vietnam and dreading the SIM card counter at the airport? 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