SME digital adoption climbs to 96% in 2025

Digital adoption amongst large firms stayed at 100%.

Large firms’ digital adoption rate remained at 100% in 2025, unchanged since 2021, whilst the rate amongst small and medium enterprises (SMEs) rose to 96.4% from 95.1% in 2024, according to The Singapore Digital Economy Report 2026.

The report, released by the Infocomm Media Development Authority in October, showed that the digital adoption rate of SMEs steadily increased from 90.5% in 2021 to 94.0% in 2022 and to 94.5% in 2023.

Meanwhile, the digital adoption intensity of large firms rose to 5.1 in 2025 from 5.0 in 2024.

The intensity stood at 4.7 in both 2022 and 2023, up from 4.3 in 2021.

Amongst SMEs, the intensity improved from 2.3 to 2.5, marking one of the largest year-on-year increases in recent years, Infocomm said. In 2021 and 2022, the intensity was 1.9, then edged up to 2.0 in 2023.

The maximum digital adoption intensity is 6, according to the report.

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