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The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

Doesn't look right for Russia either (3 mln accounts). According to government statistics, Russia has ~820k programmers as of 2023, and from my experience, not all of them have a Github account (I do job interviews).

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These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

Yeah, it's 6% for the US. Definitely questionable. But it doesn't matter as much if you're looking at change over time.

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These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

I have one account I'm locked out of (lost the email address and didn't care), a personal one and 2-3 for the various employers in my work history.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would also be interesting to compare quality of repositories, number of interactions, ...

https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/tree/main/mar... I am #381 in Finland, which is weird, because all I do is occasionally adjust my home automation.

Heh, my collegue is in top 200 for Russia, which doesn't sound right either (he's not that active).

P.S. Oh, it says, "You need at least 52 followers to be on this list". He gives lectures at a uni and does code reviews via Github - I guess most of the followers are his students.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

A first Google click suggests this checks out https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/software%20engineer.do

Looks like it spiked as high as 10% of all advertised jobs in 2022. Even though 80%+ of the UK economy is services I still find that impressive!

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

Even though I didn’t like it, I got an additional GitHub account when I started working for a big corporation.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/tree/main/mar... I am #381 in Finland, which is weird, because all I do is occasionally adjust my home automation.

This list has a unique non-development related factor which is that you have to have a minimum number of followers (varying from country to country) so you might be very active and contribute much more than most of the people on the list but do not have the minimum followers required (38 in your country) so you are out.

I should be #1 in my country by far (~4-5x more followers than the current #1), but I'm not even listed. (Yes, my location is set properly.)

I don't know where they get the user data from, but it's definitely incomplete.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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I wouldnt trust this data that much.

I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india.

This seems to match this survey.

My 2 cts, probably this just shows countries where schools prefer to use github over their own infrastructure, or else students being creative in sharing their solutions outside of school.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?

I have two, one for work and one for personal
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