LinkedIn’s India user base grows 20% YoY to 167 million

Ruchee Anand, APAC VP, Talent & Learning Solutions, LinkedIn

• LinkedIn India's revenue grew 5x since 2020; user base hit 167M in 2026.
• India is LinkedIn's second largest market by users and revenue in Asia-Pacific
• India hosts LinkedIn's largest R&D center outside US, boosting global AI innovation.

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LinkedIn India’s revenue has more than doubled since 2020, while its user base expanded to 167 million in 2026, growing 20 percent year-on-year, a senior company leader told Moneycontrol.

By user base size, India is the second largest market for the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform, which sees the country as a key growth market for offering artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

It is the second biggest in terms of revenue generation in the Asia-Pacific Region, driven by its wide clientele including large global customers across IT services, ed-tech, and high-growth startups, Ruchee Anand, APAC VP, Talent & Learning Solutions, LinkedIn said on the sidelines of LinkedIn Talent Connect in Mumbai.

“Indian members account for 2X more learning compared to global markets. India also has the highest AI skills penetration.  We feel that gives us a massive opportunity, and by enabling more and more users with AI tools we expect India to be the innovation hub for the world at LinkedIn,” Anand said.

LinkedIn didn’t disclose India-specific revenue numbers but said the company has nearly 2,000 employees at its Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru offices. India is home to LinkedIn’s largest R&D centre, in Bengaluru, outside the US.

The country has been at the centre of building out and testing several of LinkedIn’s core AI offerings.

“We are making for India and building it here for the world as well. Our sales solutions and LinkedIn Lite was built out of India. Events was built out of India, which was scaled globally. A lot of the trust work is being beta tested here as we have the largest R&D center outside of the US sitting in India,” Anand said.

LinkedIn B2B AI foray

LinkedIn is betting big on its AI skilling and assisting tools and solutions to drive sales and clock in revenue through its B2B talent solutions and learning business.

Some of its key products include Hiring Assistant – it’s first AI agent – helping recruiters draft and edit automated job role descriptions, scan through the website’s 1.3 billion global user base to show up right profiles who could be reached out to, also respond to job applicants through a personalised AI assistant.

For individual users, LinkedIn recommends courses for upskilling through its Learning Solutions offering but in a personalised way by charting career paths of similar professionals and experience levels across the globe, using the information as data points.

Using its AI-driven databases, the platform also enables multinational companies make strategic decisions through insights on talent migration trends in a city, skilled talent availability and competitiveness of the region for companies looking to expand and open new offices.

How AI is changing hiring patterns?

Hiring has shifted globally, Anand said, as AI disrupts job roles. The emphasis has become more on skill-based hiring than job designation based hiring for the recruiters.

“There’s no more a template-based hiring going by job designations,” Anand said.

Not everyone has to be an AI expert but the organisations are looking for at least “AI literate” hires, employees who can work well with artificial intelligence tools to increase productivity.

“Job roles are certainly changing. We are seeing a huge skills shift, around 70 percent of the skills required for all of us to be successful in our roles and even staying in the current role will change by 2030. Every role and every job is evolving, as more tasks are getting automated,” she said.