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GitHub Developers, 2020

Figures for 2020, as GitHub published them · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

GitHub Developers, 2020 covers 212 countries. United States is highest, at 11,660,333; Palau is lowest, at 120. The middle country reads 19,251.

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GitHub Developers · Data for 2020

HighestUnited States

11,660,333

LowestPalau

120

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of GitHub Developers, 2020, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 212 countries · select a heading to sort

GitHub Developers, 2020: every country, as published by GitHub.
United StatesUSANorthern America11,660,3332020Q4
ChinaCHNEastern Asia6,968,8482020Q4
IndiaINDSouthern Asia5,653,9242020Q4
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1,956,1842020Q4
BrazilBRASouth America1,820,5222020Q4
RussiaRUSEastern Europe1,647,0552020Q4
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1,631,0222020Q4
JapanJPNEastern Asia1,429,1442020Q4
CanadaCANNorthern America1,384,2112020Q4
FranceFRAWestern Europe1,310,8732020Q4
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1,234,6572020Q4
South KoreaKOREastern Asia985,9502020Q4
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand823,2792020Q4
SpainESPSouthern Europe812,3072020Q4
MexicoMEXCentral America735,1642020Q4
UkraineUKREastern Europe693,4422020Q4
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe674,8832020Q4
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia670,9692020Q4
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia648,8352020Q4
PolandPOLEastern Europe645,8402020Q4
ItalyITASouthern Europe600,5182020Q4
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia566,0272020Q4
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia563,1892020Q4
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia512,2332020Q4
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia428,9152020Q4

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United States11,660,333
  2. China6,968,848
  3. India5,653,924
  4. United Kingdom1,956,184
  5. Brazil1,820,522

Lowest

  1. Palau120
  2. Marshall Islands121
  3. Central African Republic126
  4. Guinea-Bissau134
  5. Micronesia138

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 19,251. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 210 distinct values among 212

    Values are stored exactly as published. 2 countries share 1,966. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 212 countries has every column.

04The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

Licence: CC0 1.0 · what it allows, in plain words

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GitHub (2020). GitHub Developers, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/github-developers/2020

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