StatCounter figures · October 2026 · 243 countries and territories

Search engines in the world

Pick up to three search engines or AI chatbots, and the map shows where each one has the highest share of your picks, in StatCounter's October 2026 figures. One pick shades every place by its share; two or three turn the map into territories, each place in the color of the pick with the highest figure there.

The search engine figures are shares of search engine referrals: visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a search results page, on all platforms. They do not count searches or people. StatCounter Global Stats

Figures for October 2026 · data checked November 10, 2026

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The engines StatCounter's search engine labels are matched to · October 2026

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* StatCounter's worldwide “Yahoo!” row counts Yahoo and Yahoo! JAPAN together, so it is credited to neither.

Google Search: share of search engine referrals, October 2026

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1% to under 5%
5% to under 20%
20% to under 50%
50% or more
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Dotted: not ranked (under 1 million people, no population figure, or fewer than three rows)

Scoreboard

Google Search

Worldwide: 91.04%
#1 of all rows: 157of 159; ranked places

Most popular in

Its highest shares among ranked places

1Iraq99.74%
2Iran99.41%
3Thailand99.34%
4Sudan99%
5Afghanistan98.81%

Engine profile

Player 2: open slot

Pick a second engine above and the map turns into a territory map: each place takes the color of the pick with the highest figure there.

Counts use the 159 ranked places: 1 million people or more and at least three StatCounter rows. A pick with no figure in a place is not counted as 0. StatCounter Global Stats

Table view: every place on this map (249)

Google Search: StatCounter share of search engine referrals by place, October 2026, in five bands
Place	P1 Google Search	Band	Ranked
Afghanistan	98.81%	50% or more	Yes
Åland Islands	85.37%	50% or more	No
Albania	94.4%	50% or more	Yes
Algeria	97.68%	50% or more	Yes
American Samoa	83.7%	50% or more	No
Andorra	91.76%	50% or more	No
Angola	93.27%	50% or more	Yes
Anguilla	81.16%	50% or more	No
Antarctica	85.25%	50% or more	No
Antigua & Barbuda	87.02%	50% or more	No
Argentina	93.86%	50% or more	Yes
Armenia	87.47%	50% or more	Yes
Aruba	91.5%	50% or more	No
Australia	87.69%	50% or more	Yes
Austria	80.6%	50% or more	Yes
Azerbaijan	96.63%	50% or more	Yes
Bahamas	85.63%	50% or more	No
Bahrain	97.6%	50% or more	Yes
Bangladesh	98.46%	50% or more	Yes
Barbados	86.65%	50% or more	No
Belarus	58.21%	50% or more	Yes
Belgium	88.57%	50% or more	Yes
Belize	76.69%	50% or more	No
Benin	95.46%	50% or more	Yes
Bermuda	70.07%	50% or more	No
Bhutan	93.64%	50% or more	No
Bolivia	92.33%	50% or more	Yes
Bosnia & Herzegovina	94.82%	50% or more	Yes
Botswana	93.29%	50% or more	Yes
Bouvet Island	No data
Brazil	92.01%	50% or more	Yes
British Indian Ocean Territory	92.13%	50% or more	No
British Virgin Islands	98.3%	50% or more	No
Brunei	80.69%	50% or more	No
Bulgaria	95.44%	50% or more	Yes
Burkina Faso	95.49%	50% or more	Yes
Burundi	96.54%	50% or more	Yes
Cambodia	95.17%	50% or more	Yes
Cameroon	96.97%	50% or more	Yes
Canada	85.04%	50% or more	Yes
Cape Verde	91.77%	50% or more	No
Caribbean Netherlands	86.49%	50% or more	No
Cayman Islands	82.71%	50% or more	No
Central African Republic	96.32%	50% or more	Yes
Chad	97.92%	50% or more	Yes
Chile	89.78%	50% or more	Yes
China	6.95%	5% to under 20%	Yes
Christmas Island	No data
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	No data
Colombia	92.52%	50% or more	Yes
Comoros	97.42%	50% or more	No
Cook Islands	95.04%	50% or more	No
Costa Rica	89.07%	50% or more	Yes
Côte d’Ivoire	96.23%	50% or more	Yes
Croatia	94.04%	50% or more	Yes
Cuba	96.52%	50% or more	Yes
Curaçao	93.35%	50% or more	No
Cyprus	93.11%	50% or more	Yes
Czechia	80.07%	50% or more	Yes
Democratic Republic of the Congo	97.79%	50% or more	Yes
Denmark	84.92%	50% or more	Yes
Djibouti	95.55%	50% or more	Yes
Dominica	88.01%	50% or more	No
Dominican Republic	85.79%	50% or more	Yes
Ecuador	91.34%	50% or more	Yes
Egypt	96.15%	50% or more	Yes
El Salvador	92.47%	50% or more	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	91.13%	50% or more	Yes
Eritrea	71.75%	50% or more	Yes
Estonia	84.87%	50% or more	Yes
Eswatini	96.09%	50% or more	Yes
Ethiopia	94.89%	50% or more	Yes
Falkland Islands	80.48%	50% or more	No
Faroe Islands	90.32%	50% or more	No
Fiji	90.12%	50% or more	No
Finland	87.26%	50% or more	Yes
France	89.31%	50% or more	Yes
French Guiana	87.25%	50% or more	No
French Polynesia	90.48%	50% or more	No
French Southern Territories	No data
Gabon	94.33%	50% or more	Yes
Gambia	96.52%	50% or more	Yes
Georgia	95.14%	50% or more	Yes
Germany	88.46%	50% or more	Yes
Ghana	97.52%	50% or more	Yes
Gibraltar	86.97%	50% or more	No
Greece	95.59%	50% or more	Yes
Greenland	86.89%	50% or more	No
Grenada	86.37%	50% or more	No
Guadeloupe	86.36%	50% or more	No
Guam	86.69%	50% or more	No
Guatemala	94.03%	50% or more	Yes
Guernsey	88.51%	50% or more	No
Guinea	97.15%	50% or more	Yes
Guinea-Bissau	97.24%	50% or more	Yes
Guyana	89.38%	50% or more	No
Haiti	96.81%	50% or more	Yes
Heard & McDonald Islands	No data
Honduras	86.4%	50% or more	Yes
Hong Kong	89.71%	50% or more	Yes
Hungary	95.2%	50% or more	Yes
Iceland	84.27%	50% or more	No
India	98.06%	50% or more	Yes
Indonesia	91.43%	50% or more	Yes
Iran	99.41%	50% or more	Yes
Iraq	99.74%	50% or more	Yes
Ireland	93.02%	50% or more	Yes
Isle of Man	86.87%	50% or more	No
Israel	98.25%	50% or more	Yes
Italy	88.1%	50% or more	Yes
Jamaica	89.64%	50% or more	Yes
Japan	59.58%	50% or more	Yes
Jersey	89.28%	50% or more	No
Jordan	97.02%	50% or more	Yes
Kazakhstan	68.35%	50% or more	Yes
Kenya	97.2%	50% or more	Yes
Kiribati	89.92%	50% or more	No
Kuwait	95.75%	50% or more	Yes
Kyrgyzstan	83.33%	50% or more	Yes
Laos	98.57%	50% or more	Yes
Latvia	84.12%	50% or more	Yes
Lebanon	94.85%	50% or more	Yes
Lesotho	94.23%	50% or more	Yes
Liberia	97.13%	50% or more	Yes
Libya	96.79%	50% or more	Yes
Liechtenstein	76.93%	50% or more	No
Lithuania	88.19%	50% or more	Yes
Luxembourg	84.34%	50% or more	No
Macao	87.84%	50% or more	No
Madagascar	96.47%	50% or more	Yes
Malawi	96.63%	50% or more	Yes
Malaysia	91.65%	50% or more	Yes
Maldives	96.29%	50% or more	No
Mali	97.22%	50% or more	Yes
Malta	87.57%	50% or more	No
Marshall Islands	77.89%	50% or more	No
Martinique	87.49%	50% or more	No
Mauritania	98.77%	50% or more	Yes
Mauritius	91.21%	50% or more	Yes
Mayotte	87.39%	50% or more	No
Mexico	86.59%	50% or more	Yes
Micronesia	83.05%	50% or more	No
Moldova	90.2%	50% or more	Yes
Monaco	87.39%	50% or more	No
Mongolia	90.19%	50% or more	Yes
Montenegro	95.76%	50% or more	No
Montserrat	88.86%	50% or more	No
Morocco	96.16%	50% or more	Yes
Mozambique	90.51%	50% or more	Yes
Myanmar	97.14%	50% or more	Yes
Namibia	92.08%	50% or more	Yes
Nauru	96.13%	50% or more	No
Nepal	96.8%	50% or more	Yes
Netherlands	89.64%	50% or more	Yes
New Caledonia	86.72%	50% or more	No
New Zealand	89.05%	50% or more	Yes
Nicaragua	88.66%	50% or more	Yes
Niger	97.8%	50% or more	Yes
Nigeria	98.79%	50% or more	Yes
Niue	100%	50% or more	No
Norfolk Island	60%	50% or more	No
North Korea	80%	50% or more	No
North Macedonia	96.07%	50% or more	Yes
Northern Mariana Islands	82.05%	50% or more	No
Norway	90.65%	50% or more	Yes
Oman	94.01%	50% or more	Yes
Pakistan	94.81%	50% or more	Yes
Palau	80.62%	50% or more	No
Panama	88.4%	50% or more	Yes
Papua New Guinea	90.07%	50% or more	Yes
Paraguay	92.4%	50% or more	Yes
Peru	91.37%	50% or more	Yes
Philippines	90.89%	50% or more	Yes
Pitcairn Islands	75%	50% or more	No
Poland	89.44%	50% or more	Yes
Portugal	87.5%	50% or more	Yes
Puerto Rico	84.58%	50% or more	Yes
Qatar	95.82%	50% or more	Yes
Republic of the Congo	96.12%	50% or more	Yes
Réunion	88.67%	50% or more	No
Romania	96.21%	50% or more	Yes
Russia	28.43%	20% to under 50%	Yes
Rwanda	93.81%	50% or more	Yes
Samoa	82.89%	50% or more	No
San Marino	92.36%	50% or more	No
São Tomé & Príncipe	97.46%	50% or more	No
Saudi Arabia	96.09%	50% or more	Yes
Senegal	96.65%	50% or more	Yes
Serbia	96.06%	50% or more	Yes
Seychelles	81.45%	50% or more	No
Sierra Leone	97.89%	50% or more	Yes
Singapore	92.4%	50% or more	Yes
Sint Maarten	86.08%	50% or more	No
Slovakia	94.8%	50% or more	Yes
Slovenia	92.31%	50% or more	Yes
Solomon Islands	83.56%	50% or more	No
Somalia	97.52%	50% or more	Yes
South Africa	92.95%	50% or more	Yes
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands	83.33%	50% or more	No
South Korea	48.64%	20% to under 50%	Yes
South Sudan	96.39%	50% or more	Yes
Spain	93.3%	50% or more	Yes
Sri Lanka	93.8%	50% or more	Yes
St. Barthélemy	85.42%	50% or more	No
St. Helena	68.24%	50% or more	No
St. Kitts & Nevis	82.46%	50% or more	No
St. Lucia	90.27%	50% or more	No
St. Martin	75.42%	50% or more	No
St. Pierre & Miquelon	78.33%	50% or more	No
St. Vincent & Grenadines	85.61%	50% or more	No
State of Palestine	98.72%	50% or more	Yes
Sudan	99%	50% or more	Yes
Suriname	92.3%	50% or more	No
Svalbard & Jan Mayen	100%	50% or more	No
Sweden	85.86%	50% or more	Yes
Switzerland	81.26%	50% or more	Yes
Syria	98.45%	50% or more	Yes
Taiwan	80.12%	50% or more	Yes
Tajikistan	86.63%	50% or more	Yes
Tanzania	98.02%	50% or more	Yes
Thailand	99.34%	50% or more	Yes
Timor-Leste	92.52%	50% or more	Yes
Togo	95.1%	50% or more	Yes
Tokelau	86.96%	50% or more	No
Tonga	78.24%	50% or more	No
Trinidad & Tobago	88.45%	50% or more	Yes
Tunisia	95.42%	50% or more	Yes
Türkiye	74.79%	50% or more	Yes
Turkmenistan	90.65%	50% or more	Yes
Turks & Caicos Islands	78.91%	50% or more	No
Tuvalu	88.93%	50% or more	No
U.S. Outlying Islands	62.5%	50% or more	No
U.S. Virgin Islands	74.31%	50% or more	No
Uganda	97.69%	50% or more	Yes
Ukraine	90.35%	50% or more	Yes
United Arab Emirates	95.45%	50% or more	Yes
United Kingdom	90.62%	50% or more	Yes
United States	85.45%	50% or more	Yes
Uruguay	93.25%	50% or more	Yes
Uzbekistan	75.84%	50% or more	Yes
Vanuatu	88.46%	50% or more	No
Vatican City	86.49%	50% or more	No
Venezuela	93.14%	50% or more	Yes
Vietnam	93.41%	50% or more	Yes
Wallis & Futuna	85.49%	50% or more	No
Western Sahara	No data
Yemen	94.86%	50% or more	Yes
Zambia	98.38%	50% or more	Yes
Zimbabwe	95.68%	50% or more	Yes

October 2026, share of search engine referrals, all platforms. “Not listed”: StatCounter has figures for the place but not for that engine. “Ranked”: 1 million people or more and at least three rows. Source: StatCounter Global Stats, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Where is each search engine most popular?

Here, most popular means the highest share of search engine referrals in StatCounter's October 2026 figures, among the 159 ranked places (1 million people or more, at least three StatCounter rows). Each engine's three highest shares, with its worldwide figure. StatCounter Global Stats

Worldwide figure and the three ranked places with the highest share, October 2026
Engine	Worldwide	Highest shares, ranked places
Google Search	91.04%	Iraq 99.74%, Iran 99.41%, Thailand 99.34%
Bing	4.77%	Japan 32.26%, China 21.66%, Puerto Rico 12.42%
Yandex Search	1.17%	Russia 70.15%, Belarus 38.81%, Kazakhstan 29.52%
DuckDuckGo	0.64%	Austria 2.37%, Indonesia 2.32%, Sweden 1.88%
Baidu	0.42%	China 49.08%, Turkmenistan 0.49%, Hong Kong 0.43%
Naver	0.23%	South Korea 42.1%, Mongolia 0.12%, Singapore 0.11%
Cốc Cốc	0.18%	Vietnam 5.59%, South Korea 1.05%, Taiwan 0.41%
Ecosia	0.15%	France 1.22%, Switzerland 1.19%, Austria 1.09%
360 Search	0.07%	China 8.68%, Yemen 0.12%, Chad 0.06%
Seznam.cz	0.05%	Czechia 13.11%, Slovakia 0.24%, Turkmenistan 0.05%
Qwant	0.03%	France 0.76%, Denmark 0.18%, Switzerland 0.17%
Sogou	0.01%	China 1.71%, Cambodia 0.02%, Hong Kong 0.02%
Yahoo Search	Shared row*	Taiwan 10.86%, Italy 4.59%, Hong Kong 3.88%
Petal Search	Not listed	Mozambique 0.84%, South Africa 0.29%, Costa Rica 0.24%
Startpage	Not listed	New Zealand 0.09%, Austria 0.06%, Switzerland 0.06%
Mail.ru Search	Not listed	Russia 0.31%, Hong Kong 0.07%, Belarus 0.03%
Shenma	Not listed	China 0.21%
Daum	Not listed	South Korea 0.71%
Yahoo! JAPAN Search	Shared row*	Japan 6.57%
Yep	Not listed	Not listed in a ranked place; listed in Cape Verde (0.01%), not ranked

* StatCounter's worldwide “Yahoo!” row (1.18%) counts Yahoo Search and Yahoo! JAPAN Search together, so it is credited to neither.

Where is each AI chatbot most popular?

The same for StatCounter's AI chatbot market share, October 2026, under StatCounter's own product names, among the 151 places ranked for these figures. StatCounter does not describe how it measures AI chatbot share on the pages read, so no method is claimed here. StatCounter Global Stats

Worldwide figure and the three ranked places with the highest share, October 2026
StatCounter label	Worldwide	Highest shares, ranked places
ChatGPT	51.03%	Iran 91.11%, Afghanistan 81.9%, North Macedonia 68.57%
Google Gemini	29.22%	Venezuela 86.78%, Syria 77.68%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 75.51%
Perplexity	15.22%	Yemen 76.72%, Belarus 40.69%, Russia 39.2%
Claude	2.32%	Equatorial Guinea 55.56%, Republic of the Congo 17.65%, Burkina Faso 12.28%
Microsoft Copilot	2.17%	South Sudan 57.14%, Sierra Leone 30%, Zambia 30%

Which search engines lead in each country?

Google Search has the highest share of search engine referrals in 157 of the 159 ranked places; the exceptions are China (Baidu, 49.08%) and Russia (Yandex Search, 70.15%), in October 2026. StatCounter Global Stats

Google Search
Baidu
Yandex Search
No StatCounter data
Dotted: not ranked

Equal Earth projection. Antarctica and many small places are too small to draw; the explorer's table view lists every place. Dotted places are under 1 million people, have no population figure, or have fewer than three StatCounter rows. StatCounter Global Stats

Places where each engine has the highest StatCounter figure, October 2026
Engine	#1 in, of 159 ranked places
Google Search	157
Baidu	1
Yandex Search	1

No StatCounter search engine data for 6 places in the list: Bouvet Island, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, French Southern Territories, Heard & McDonald Islands, Western Sahara.

Which AI chatbot leads in each country?

The product with the highest StatCounter AI chatbot share in each place, October 2026, under StatCounter's product names. The explorer's Leaders view maps it. In 3 of the 151 ranked places two or more products tie for the highest share, and each tied product is counted. StatCounter Global Stats

Places where each product has the highest StatCounter figure, October 2026
StatCounter label	#1 in, of 151 ranked places
ChatGPT	86
Google Gemini	64
Perplexity	2
Microsoft Copilot	1
Claude	1

Ties: 3 ranked places; each tied product is counted.

Which countries have a page?

All 159, by name: every place of 1 million people or more where StatCounter lists at least three search engines. Each name opens its page, with every StatCounter row, the AI chatbot figures, the engines documented for it and the rich results whose documentation names it. Beside each name: the StatCounter label with the highest share of search engine referrals there, October 2026. StatCounter Global Stats

Afghanistan Google 98.81%
Albania Google 94.4%
Algeria Google 97.68%
Angola Google 93.27%
Argentina Google 93.86%
Armenia Google 87.47%
Australia Google 87.69%
Austria Google 80.6%
Azerbaijan Google 96.63%
Bahrain Google 97.6%
Bangladesh Google 98.46%
Belarus Google 58.21%
Belgium Google 88.57%
Benin Google 95.46%
Bolivia Google 92.33%
Bosnia & Herzegovina Google 94.82%
Botswana Google 93.29%
Brazil Google 92.01%
Bulgaria Google 95.44%
Burkina Faso Google 95.49%
Burundi Google 96.54%
Cambodia Google 95.17%
Cameroon Google 96.97%
Canada Google 85.04%
Central African Republic Google 96.32%
Chad Google 97.92%
Chile Google 89.78%
China Baidu 49.08%
Colombia Google 92.52%
Costa Rica Google 89.07%
Côte d’Ivoire Google 96.23%
Croatia Google 94.04%
Cuba Google 96.52%
Cyprus Google 93.11%
Czechia Google 80.07%
Democratic Republic of the Congo Google 97.79%
Denmark Google 84.92%
Djibouti Google 95.55%
Dominican Republic Google 85.79%
Ecuador Google 91.34%
Egypt Google 96.15%
El Salvador Google 92.47%
Equatorial Guinea Google 91.13%
Eritrea Google 71.75%
Estonia Google 84.87%
Eswatini Google 96.09%
Ethiopia Google 94.89%
Finland Google 87.26%
France Google 89.31%
Gabon Google 94.33%
Gambia Google 96.52%
Georgia Google 95.14%
Germany Google 88.46%
Ghana Google 97.52%
Greece Google 95.59%
Guatemala Google 94.03%
Guinea Google 97.15%
Guinea-Bissau Google 97.24%
Haiti Google 96.81%
Honduras Google 86.4%
Hong Kong Google 89.71%
Hungary Google 95.2%
India Google 98.06%
Indonesia Google 91.43%
Iran Google 99.41%
Iraq Google 99.74%
Ireland Google 93.02%
Israel Google 98.25%
Italy Google 88.1%
Jamaica Google 89.64%
Japan Google 59.58%
Jordan Google 97.02%
Kazakhstan Google 68.35%
Kenya Google 97.2%
Kuwait Google 95.75%
Kyrgyzstan Google 83.33%
Laos Google 98.57%
Latvia Google 84.12%
Lebanon Google 94.85%
Lesotho Google 94.23%
Liberia Google 97.13%
Libya Google 96.79%
Lithuania Google 88.19%
Madagascar Google 96.47%
Malawi Google 96.63%
Malaysia Google 91.65%
Mali Google 97.22%
Mauritania Google 98.77%
Mauritius Google 91.21%
Mexico Google 86.59%
Moldova Google 90.2%
Mongolia Google 90.19%
Morocco Google 96.16%
Mozambique Google 90.51%
Myanmar Google 97.14%
Namibia Google 92.08%
Nepal Google 96.8%
Netherlands Google 89.64%
New Zealand Google 89.05%
Nicaragua Google 88.66%
Niger Google 97.8%
Nigeria Google 98.79%
North Macedonia Google 96.07%
Norway Google 90.65%
Oman Google 94.01%
Pakistan Google 94.81%
Panama Google 88.4%
Papua New Guinea Google 90.07%
Paraguay Google 92.4%
Peru Google 91.37%
Philippines Google 90.89%
Poland Google 89.44%
Portugal Google 87.5%
Puerto Rico Google 84.58%
Qatar Google 95.82%
Republic of the Congo Google 96.12%
Romania Google 96.21%
Russia YANDEX 70.15%
Rwanda Google 93.81%
Saudi Arabia Google 96.09%
Senegal Google 96.65%
Serbia Google 96.06%
Sierra Leone Google 97.89%
Singapore Google 92.4%
Slovakia Google 94.8%
Slovenia Google 92.31%
Somalia Google 97.52%
South Africa Google 92.95%
South Korea Google 48.64%
South Sudan Google 96.39%
Spain Google 93.3%
Sri Lanka Google 93.8%
State of Palestine Google 98.72%
Sudan Google 99%
Sweden Google 85.86%
Switzerland Google 81.26%
Syria Google 98.45%
Taiwan Google 80.12%
Tajikistan Google 86.63%
Tanzania Google 98.02%
Thailand Google 99.34%
Timor-Leste Google 92.52%
Togo Google 95.1%
Trinidad & Tobago Google 88.45%
Tunisia Google 95.42%
Türkiye Google 74.79%
Turkmenistan Google 90.65%
Uganda Google 97.69%
Ukraine Google 90.35%
United Arab Emirates Google 95.45%
United Kingdom Google 90.62%
United States Google 85.45%
Uruguay Google 93.25%
Uzbekistan Google 75.84%
Venezuela Google 93.14%
Vietnam Google 93.41%
Yemen Google 94.86%
Zambia Google 98.38%
Zimbabwe Google 95.68%

How do these figures work?

What StatCounter measures

StatCounter Global Stats counts search engine referrals: visits that sites running its code receive from a search engine's results page. A share is that engine's part of those visits in a place, for October 2026, on all platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet and console). It does not count searches, and it is not a count of people. StatCounter Global Stats

StatCounter also publishes AI chatbot market share. It does not describe how it measures that figure on the pages read, so no method is claimed here. Its product names (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Microsoft Copilot) are shown as StatCounter writes them, each linked to the engine profile it is matched to. StatCounter Global Stats

How StatCounter's labels are matched

StatCounter's one “Yahoo!” label is counted as Yahoo! JAPAN Search in Japan and as Yahoo Search everywhere else. Its worldwide row covers both, so it is credited to neither.
YANDEX is Yandex Search. Where StatCounter also lists YANDEX RU, the two rows are added together; the October 2026 figures list no YANDEX RU row.
Haosou is 360 Search.
Rows under labels matched to no engine here stay in each place's rows but cannot be picked: for search engines, Other, PrivacyWall, Lilo, Search, t-online, WEB.DE, Karma Search, Galaxy, StartPagina (Google), Kvasir, Rambler; for AI chatbots, Deepseek and Other.

No data is not 0%

“No data” means StatCounter returned no table for the place: 6 of the 249 places in the list for search engines, 27 for AI chatbots. “Not listed” means StatCounter has a table for the place, but the engine is not in it. Neither is shown or counted as 0%: on the map, a pick with no figure in a place is not compared.

Which places are ranked

Every ranking or count across places (most popular in, highest of the picks, #1 in) uses only ranked places: a population of 1 million or more and at least three StatCounter rows for those figures. That gives 159 ranked places for search engines and 151 for AI chatbots. Population: World Bank, indicator SP.POP.TOTL, 2025 (CC BY 4.0); Taiwan, which the World Bank does not list, from Wikidata, citing Taiwan's Department of Household Registration, April 2026. 33 places in the list have no population figure, so they are not ranked. Smaller places stay on the map, dotted, and in the table view: where StatCounter lists one or two rows, a single figure can swing widely (a lone row shows as 100%).

How the map is colored

One pick: five bands, the same as on the engine profiles (under 1%, 1% to under 5%, 5% to under 20%, 20% to under 50%, 50% or more). Two or three picks: each place takes the color of the pick with the highest figure there; the strong color means that figure is 20% or more, the soft one under 20%. Stripes in the next pick's color mark a place where its figure is at least 80% of the leading one (South Korea: Naver at 42.1% against Google Search at 48.64%). A checkered place is a tie. The colors were checked for color vision deficiency and contrast in both themes, and every value is also in the tooltip, the place panel and the table view.

Sources and license

StatCounter Global Stats: search engine market share, October 2026, all platforms, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 (license).
StatCounter Global Stats: AI chatbot market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
World Bank: population, indicator SP.POP.TOTL (CC BY 4.0).
Wikidata Q865: population of Taiwan, citing Taiwan's Department of Household Registration.
Country list: UN M49, plus Taiwan from ISO 3166-1; names are the English names in CLDR 47.0, the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository.

The engine profiles, with what each engine documents about structured data, are on the engines page.