India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
Developer accounts on GitHub by country, top 10, millions, September 2026.
- 1. India now has more working-age people than China
- 2. India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa
- 3. Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US
- 4. India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
- 5. India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000
- 6. Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly
- 7. India's metro network quadrupled in a decade
- 8. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
- 9. India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales
- 10. India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
- 11. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 12. Indians now file more patents at home than Germans
- 13. India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined
- 14. India now holds more foreign reserves than Saudi Arabia
- 15. Open defecation in India fell from 73% to 7%
India is GitHub's second-largest developer base, ahead of China, Brazil and Japan together (29.75 million).
India and the US each added more than 10 million developers in the past year.
The US (38.3 million) still leads; GitHub's data does not yet show India overtaking it.
the numbers & method
| Developers (M) | |
|---|---|
| United States | 38.3 |
| India | 32.0 |
| China | 12.4 |
| Brazil | 10.2 |
| Japan | 7.2 |
| United Kingdom | 6.5 |
| Indonesia | 6.3 |
| Germany | 6.3 |
| Russia | 5.1 |
| France | 4.8 |
Claim types Fact
Company data, not official statistics: counts GitHub accounts attributed to a country, not all software developers, and one person can hold more than one account. Total GitHub developers: more than 225 million. 'China, Brazil and Japan combined' (12.4 + 10.2 + 7.15 = 29.75 million) and the US–India gap are derived by progrss. Octoverse 2026 counts include private-repository activity and GitHub recalculated earlier years on this basis, so figures are not comparable with past Octoverse editions. This edition does not show India overtaking the US; Octoverse 2025 projected India at 57.5 million and the US at 54.7 million by 2030 (a GitHub forecast, not charted).
Published 3 Nov 2026
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