What happened
Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) released its annual Digital Economy Report showing Singapore's digital economy grew 5.6% to S$144.1 billion in 2025, accounting for 19.3% of GDP, while AI adoption nearly doubled: 'the adoption rate among all enterprises rising from 14.7 per cent in 2024 to 23.5 per cent in 2025.' The report details the AI adoption figures by segment — SMEs from 14.5% to 23.4%, large local enterprises from 62.5% to 70.4% — and reports that 85.7% of surveyed workers used AI at work in 2026 (up from 77.6%), with 87.6% of AI-adopting enterprises citing productivity gains. It flags an upskilling gap: about 68% of workers recognise the need to upskill in AI but only 37% attended AI-related training in the past 12 months, and sets targets to train 40,000 tech professionals and 100,000 domain professionals in AI skills by 2029.
Why it matters
This is a high-quality, regulator-verified dataset on how enterprise AI adoption and workforce AI skills are actually evolving in a leading digital economy — useful comparative benchmarks for enterprise AI strategy and workforce planning.
Action needed
Benchmark your enterprise AI-adoption and upskilling trajectory against Singapore's numbers (SME 23.4%, large enterprise 70.4%, productivity benefit 87.6%) when building the 2027 AI investment and reskilling business case.