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GitHub Repositories, 2020

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

How many public software projects on GitHub are based in each country, placed by where the people who run them are. GitHub publishes it quarterly in its Innovation Graph.

GitHub Repositories, 2020 covers 209 countries. United States is highest, at 35,235,403; Cook Islands is lowest, at 106. The middle country reads 38,749.

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GitHub Repositories · Data for 2020

HighestUnited States

35,235,403

LowestCook Islands

106

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 Repositories, 2020, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 209 countries · select a heading to sort

GitHub Repositories, 2020: every country, as published by GitHub.
United StatesUSANorthern America35,235,4032020Q4
ChinaCHNEastern Asia22,263,2742020Q4
IndiaINDSouthern Asia13,198,2502020Q4
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe4,738,2442020Q4
BrazilBRASouth America4,698,2982020Q4
GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,053,8572020Q4
RussiaRUSEastern Europe3,899,5882020Q4
CanadaCANNorthern America3,877,0172020Q4
JapanJPNEastern Asia3,527,0222020Q4
FranceFRAWestern Europe3,401,5342020Q4
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia2,964,1182020Q4
South KoreaKOREastern Asia2,574,8342020Q4
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia2,235,1872020Q4
SpainESPSouthern Europe2,087,1642020Q4
UkraineUKREastern Europe2,000,9022020Q4
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1,899,1792020Q4
PolandPOLEastern Europe1,763,3132020Q4
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia1,759,9742020Q4
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1,691,3512020Q4
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1,517,3472020Q4
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1,446,7722020Q4
MexicoMEXCentral America1,385,6992020Q4
ItalyITASouthern Europe1,076,7532020Q4
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1,061,4522020Q4
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1,006,6452020Q4

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United States35,235,403
  2. China22,263,274
  3. India13,198,250
  4. United Kingdom4,738,244
  5. Brazil4,698,298

Lowest

  1. Cook Islands106
  2. Tonga114
  3. Guinea-Bissau130
  4. Micronesia136
  5. São Tomé and Príncipe161

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38,749. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 209 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 Repositories, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/github-repositories/2020

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