GitHub developer populations

2020 → 2025 · Millions of developers · The 2025 global top 10

20202025

Source: GitHub Octoverse 2025, “A new global top 10”. Counts rounded to 0.1M.

GitHub populations, not the entire developer workforce. Source ordering retained for Germany and Indonesia (both round to 4.4M). Reported CAGR omitted because it does not reconcile with a five-year calculation.

Data and text summary

India added 17.4M developers, close to the U.S. increase of 17.8M. Its population grew from 4.5M to 21.9M, while the U.S. grew from 10.2M to 28.0M. Changes are calculated from rounded counts.

Country	2020 (M)	2025 (M)	Change (M)