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GitHub Developers, 2021

Figures for 2021, 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, 2021 covers 215 countries. United States is highest, at 14,190,290; Cook Islands is lowest, at 108. The middle country reads 26,127. Against 2020, 212 values changed (212 up, 0 down), 3 countries joined.

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GitHub Developers · Data for 2021

HighestUnited States

14,190,290

LowestCook Islands

108

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, 2021, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 215 countries · select a heading to sort

GitHub Developers, 2021: every country, as published by GitHub.
United StatesUSANorthern America14,190,2902021Q4
ChinaCHNEastern Asia7,813,1722021Q4
IndiaINDSouthern Asia7,790,6832021Q4
BrazilBRASouth America2,547,5332021Q4
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2,398,4392021Q4
RussiaRUSEastern Europe2,130,2282021Q4
GermanyDEUWestern Europe2,038,5822021Q4
JapanJPNEastern Asia1,841,0512021Q4
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1,795,6002021Q4
CanadaCANNorthern America1,721,8872021Q4
FranceFRAWestern Europe1,630,8622021Q4
South KoreaKOREastern Asia1,310,1022021Q4
MexicoMEXCentral America1,047,4632021Q4
SpainESPSouthern Europe1,019,6022021Q4
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1,006,7102021Q4
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia936,4902021Q4
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia926,8882021Q4
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia896,5842021Q4
UkraineUKREastern Europe870,2612021Q4
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe829,7532021Q4
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia812,7692021Q4
PolandPOLEastern Europe804,4212021Q4
ItalyITASouthern Europe765,8472021Q4
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia659,9422021Q4
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia600,6962021Q4

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United States14,190,290
  2. China7,813,172
  3. India7,790,683
  4. Brazil2,547,533
  5. United Kingdom2,398,439

Lowest

  1. Cook Islands108
  2. Kiribati110
  3. Marshall Islands135
  4. Palau145
  5. Micronesia177

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 26,127. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 212values changed, of 212 in both
  • 212 · 0rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • United States11,660,333 → 14,190,290+2,529,957
  • India5,653,924 → 7,790,683+2,136,759
  • China6,968,848 → 7,813,172+844,324
  • Brazil1,820,522 → 2,547,533+727,011
  • Indonesia1,234,657 → 1,795,600+560,943

Fell most

  • None.
+ Cook Islands+ Kiribati+ Kosovo

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 215 countries has every column.

05The 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 (2021). GitHub Developers, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/github-developers/2021

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