India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
Developer accounts on GitHub by country, top 10, millions, September 2026.
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
| 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 |
source notes & method
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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