Dataset · GitHub
GitHub Developers
7 years, 2020–2026 · 219 countries
How many developer accounts on GitHub, the world's largest code-hosting platform, are located in each country. GitHub publishes it quarterly in its Innovation Graph, one of the few open measures of how many people write software around the world.
This site holds every year from 2020 to 2026, read from GitHub’s own data and stored exactly as published.
GitHub Developers · the file
- Newest
- GitHub Developers, 2026
- Held
- 7 years · 1,514 rows
- Licence
- Public domain or CC0
017 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Developers, 2026Newest | 219 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| GitHub Developers, 2025 | 218 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| GitHub Developers, 2024 | 217 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| GitHub Developers, 2023 | 217 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| GitHub Developers, 2022 | 216 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| GitHub Developers, 2021 | 215 | +3 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| GitHub Developers, 2020 | 212 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: github-developers-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2026 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 219 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 219 | 0 | |
Developer accounts located in the economy (as of quarter end)developersHeadline | The headline figure: Developer accounts located in the economy (as of quarter end). | Number · whole numbers | 110 Nauru32,410,529 United Statesmiddle 84,670 | 219 | 0 | |
QuarterquarterLabel | The quarter the count refers to, written as year and quarter; each edition holds the last quarter GitHub published for its year, counted as of that quarter's final day. | Text | — | 1 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03219 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 46 | 46 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 48 |
| Asia | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Europe | 46 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Oceania | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| All | 212 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 217 | 218 | 219 |
Who joined and who left
+ Montserrat
+ Vatican City
+ Saint Martin
+ Cook Islands
+ Kiribati
+ KosovoNot in this dataset · 6 places this site covers
GitHub gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
GitHub
2 · Their file
GitHub Developers 2026Q1
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
7 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as github-developers-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored in whole numbers, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the data files in GitHub's own Innovation Graph repository, stored as published. Places that are not a country row on this site, and the EU total, are left out; Jersey and Guernsey, which GitHub counts separately, are not added together into one row.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.
A credit line
Source: GitHub, GitHub Developers, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
GitHub. GitHub Developers, 2020–2026 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/github-developers
The publisher’s own citation: GitHub. (2026). GitHub Innovation Graph (Version 1.0.11) [Data set]. https://github.com/github/innovationgraph
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
GitHub Developers by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Government Cyber Security CapacityV-Dem Institute · 26 held · 2000–2025
- Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 15 held · 2010–2024
- Government AI Readiness IndexOxford Insights · 6 held · 2020–2025
07Questions
GitHub Developers: questions and answers
What is the GitHub Developers?
How many developer accounts on GitHub, the world's largest code-hosting platform, are located in each country. GitHub publishes it quarterly in its Innovation Graph, one of the few open measures of how many people write software around the world.
Which years of the GitHub Developers can I download?
All 7, from 2020 to 2026, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does GitHub rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC0 1.0, with credit to GitHub. The licence text is linked on this page.