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GitHub Developers, 2025

Figures for 2025, 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, 2025 covers 218 countries. United States is highest, at 30,298,253; Montserrat is lowest, at 120. The middle country reads 77,589. Against 2024, 217 values changed (214 up, 3 down), 1 country joined.

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GitHub Developers · Data for 2025

HighestUnited States

30,298,253

LowestMontserrat

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, 2025, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 218 countries · select a heading to sort

GitHub Developers, 2025: every country, as published by GitHub.
United StatesUSANorthern America30,298,2532025Q4
IndiaINDSouthern Asia24,576,2362025Q4
ChinaCHNEastern Asia11,063,5892025Q4
BrazilBRASouth America7,653,5862025Q4
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe5,220,9832025Q4
JapanJPNEastern Asia4,973,9082025Q4
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4,896,5242025Q4
GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,858,8052025Q4
RussiaRUSEastern Europe4,490,8702025Q4
FranceFRAWestern Europe3,756,9722025Q4
CanadaCANNorthern America3,745,4702025Q4
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia3,262,1202025Q4
South KoreaKOREastern Asia2,900,5392025Q4
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia2,760,6192025Q4
MexicoMEXCentral America2,637,5762025Q4
SpainESPSouthern Europe2,574,6112025Q4
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2,560,0292025Q4
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2,362,9082025Q4
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia2,281,6502025Q4
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2,217,9662025Q4
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2,004,4252025Q4
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1,944,2042025Q4
PolandPOLEastern Europe1,934,4642025Q4
ItalyITASouthern Europe1,829,9592025Q4
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia1,748,2402025Q4

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United States30,298,253
  2. India24,576,236
  3. China11,063,589
  4. Brazil7,653,586
  5. United Kingdom5,220,983

Lowest

  1. Montserrat120
  2. Vatican City181
  3. Cook Islands251
  4. Marshall Islands310
  5. Saint Martin339

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 77,589. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 217values changed, of 217 in both
  • 214 · 3rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India18,062,761 → 24,576,236+6,513,475
  • United States24,759,357 → 30,298,253+5,538,896
  • Brazil5,770,595 → 7,653,586+1,882,991
  • Japan3,759,833 → 4,973,908+1,214,075
  • Indonesia3,791,126 → 4,896,524+1,105,398

Fell most

+ Montserrat

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 217 distinct values among 218

    Values are stored exactly as published. 2 countries share 57,359. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 218 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

Cite this edition

GitHub (2025). GitHub Developers, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/github-developers/2025

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