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GitHub Repositories, 2022

Figures for 2022, 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, 2022 covers 214 countries. United States is highest, at 50,597,871; Montserrat is lowest, at 111. The middle country reads 65,112. Against 2021, 212 values changed (207 up, 5 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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GitHub Repositories · Data for 2022

HighestUnited States

50,597,871

LowestMontserrat

111

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, 2022, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 214 countries · select a heading to sort

GitHub Repositories, 2022: every country, as published by GitHub.
United StatesUSANorthern America50,597,8712022Q4
IndiaINDSouthern Asia27,457,9382022Q4
ChinaCHNEastern Asia20,682,2992022Q4
BrazilBRASouth America9,205,1132022Q4
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia8,023,7502022Q4
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,038,6852022Q4
RussiaRUSEastern Europe6,214,5742022Q4
GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,176,2772022Q4
JapanJPNEastern Asia6,000,0522022Q4
CanadaCANNorthern America5,971,2772022Q4
FranceFRAWestern Europe5,126,8162022Q4
South KoreaKOREastern Asia4,747,0322022Q4
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4,595,5572022Q4
SpainESPSouthern Europe3,470,4192022Q4
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia3,289,1762022Q4
UkraineUKREastern Europe2,874,4002022Q4
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2,858,6342022Q4
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2,819,8292022Q4
PolandPOLEastern Europe2,806,5692022Q4
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia2,558,6272022Q4
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2,556,6382022Q4
MexicoMEXCentral America2,466,1612022Q4
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2,426,7832022Q4
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia2,135,2542022Q4
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa1,868,3572022Q4

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United States50,597,871
  2. India27,457,938
  3. China20,682,299
  4. Brazil9,205,113
  5. Hong Kong8,023,750

Lowest

  1. Montserrat111
  2. American Samoa137
  3. Tonga154
  4. Micronesia172
  5. Guinea-Bissau185

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 65,112. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 212values changed, of 212 in both
  • 207 · 5rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • United States42,333,711 → 50,597,871+8,264,160
  • India19,972,109 → 27,457,938+7,485,829
  • Hong Kong5,021,657 → 8,023,750+3,002,093
  • Brazil6,636,791 → 9,205,113+2,568,322
  • Japan4,661,835 → 6,000,052+1,338,217

Fell most

+ American Samoa+ Montserrat− Cook Islands

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 214 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 (2022). GitHub Repositories, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/github-repositories/2022

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