This is time again for my annual report about the number of developers per
country.
This is now the fifth edition of this report, after the 2012,
2011,
2010 and 2009 editions.
So, here we are with the July 2013 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million
population for each country.
Code
Name
Population
Act Dev
Dev
Act/Million
Dev/Million
2009
2010
June 2011
June 2012
July 2013
fi
Finland
5259250
19
31
3,61
5,89
1
1
1
1
1
ie
Ireland
4670976
12
15
2,57
3,21
13
9
6
2
2
ch
Switzerland
7870134
20
27
2,54
3,43
2
2
2
3
3
mq
Martinique
396404
1
1
2,52
2,52
3
4
4
se
Sweden
9088728
22
37
2,42
4,07
3
6
7
5
5
no
Norway
4973029
12
15
2,41
3,02
5
4
4
6
6
nz
New Zealand
4331600
10
15
2,31
3,46
4
3
5
7
7
de
Germany
81471834
165
235
2,03
2,88
7
7
9
9
8
*
lu
Luxemburg
503302
1
1
1,99
1,99
8
5
8
8
9
*
at
Austria
8217280
16
26
1,95
3,16
6
8
10
10
10
fr
France
65350000
100
130
1,53
1,99
12
12
11
11
11
au
Australia
22607571
31
59
1,37
2,61
9
10
12
12
12
be
Belgium
11071483
14
17
1,26
1,54
10
11
13
13
13
uk
United-Kingdom
62698362
73
114
1,16
1,82
14
14
14
14
14
nl
Netherlands
16728091
19
40
1,14
2,39
11
13
15
15
15
ca
Canada
33476688
32
61
0,96
1,82
15
15
17
16
16
dk
Denmark
5529888
5
10
0,9
1,81
17
17
16
17
17
es
Spain
46754784
35
56
0,75
1,2
16
16
19
18
18
it
Italy
59464644
36
51
0,61
0,86
23
22
22
19
19
cz
Czech Rep
10190213
6
6
0,59
0,59
21
20
21
21
20
*
lt
Lithuania
3535547
2
2
0,57
0,57
28
19
20
22
21
*
us
USA
313232044
173
378
0,55
1,21
19
21
25
24
22
*
il
Israel
7740900
4
6
0,52
0,78
24
24
24
25
23
*
hu
Hungary
10076062
5
10
0,5
0,99
18
25
26
20
24
*
hr
Croatia
4290612
2
2
0,47
0,47
20
18
18
26
25
*
lv
Latvia
2204708
1
1
0,45
0,45
26
26
27
27
26
*
bg
Bulgaria
7364570
3
3
0,41
0,41
25
23
23
23
27
*
uy
Uruguay
3477778
1
2
0,29
0,58
22
27
28
28
28
jp
Japan
127078679
35
50
0,28
0,39
30
28
29
29
29
pl
Poland
38441588
10
14
0,26
0,36
29
29
30
30
30
cr
Costa Rica
4301712
1
1
0,23
0,23
31
30
31
31
31
by
Belarus
9577552
2
2
0,21
0,21
35
36
39
39
32
*
sg
Singapore
5183700
1
1
0,19
0,19
33
33
pt
Portugal
10561614
2
4
0,19
0,38
27
32
32
34
34
gr
Greece
10787690
2
3
0,19
0,28
33
38
34
35
35
sk
Slovakia
5477038
1
1
0,18
0,18
32
31
33
36
36
ar
Argentina
40677348
6
8
0,15
0,2
34
33
35
32
37
*
rs
Serbia
7186862
1
1
0,14
0,14
38
*
tw
Taiwan
23040040
3
3
0,13
0,13
37
34
37
37
39
*
br
Brazil
192376496
21
23
0,11
0,12
36
35
38
38
40
*
cu
Cuba
11241161
1
1
0,09
0,09
38
41
41
41
kr
South Korea
48754657
4
6
0,08
0,12
39
39
42
42
42
gt
Guatemala
13824463
1
1
0,07
0,07
43
*
ve
Venezuela
28047938
2
2
0,07
0,07
40
45
50
49
44
*
ec
Ecuador
15007343
1
1
0,07
0,07
40
43
43
45
*
co
Colombia
45566856
3
4
0,07
0,09
41
44
46
47
46
*
cl
Chile
16746491
1
2
0,06
0,12
42
41
44
44
47
*
za
South Africa
50590000
3
10
0,06
0,2
38
48
48
48
48
ru
Russia
143030106
7
8
0,05
0,06
43
42
47
45
49
*
mg
Madagascar
21281844
1
1
0,05
0,05
44
37
40
40
50
*
ro
Romania
21904551
1
2
0,05
0,09
45
43
45
46
51
*
my
Malaysia
28250000
1
1
0,04
0,04
49
50
52
*
pe
Peru
29907003
1
1
0,03
0,03
46
46
51
51
53
*
tr
Turkey
74724269
2
2
0,03
0,03
47
47
52
52
54
*
ua
Ukraine
45134707
1
1
0,02
0,02
48
53
58
59
55
*
th
Thailand
66720153
1
2
0,01
0,03
50
50
54
54
56
*
eg
Egypt
80081093
1
3
0,01
0,04
51
51
55
55
57
*
mx
Mexico
112336538
1
1
0,01
0,01
49
49
53
53
58
*
cn
China
1344413526
10
14
0,01
0,01
53
53
57
56
59
*
in
India
1210193422
9
9
0,01
0,01
52
52
56
57
60
*
sv
El Salvador
7066403
0
1
0
0,14
36
58
61
*
957
1535
62,35%
A few interesting facts:
Rankings are very stable: the first 7 countries are the same
Germany takes Luxemburg over with 10 more active developers than
last year
Finland is still ranked 1st but loses two active developers.
Still, it would need to lose 6 developers to lose rank 1
By losing one active developer, Hungary drops from 20th to 24th
Similar loss for Bulgaria, dropping from 23rd to 27th
Belarus doubles its number of developers from 1 to 2 and therefore
jumps from rank 39 to 32
Serbia gains its first developer (indeed, the person registered with the
"yu" ISO code and I arbitrarily decided that would count for
Serbia.....please correct me if I'm wrong) and shows up at rank 38
Argentina sadly loses two active developers and rops to rank 37
Venezuela doubles its number of developers from 1 to 2 and
slightly climbs up
Even though both of them gained one developer, the two most
populated countries in the world, China and India, remain very low.
China would indeed need 2730 developers to reach the ratio of Germany
and India would need 2470.
Again, one new country : Guatemala. Let's take this as an
achievement of another DebConf in Central America, last year.
Ukraine shows up again and I'm partly responsible for that as I
processed Boris Pek's application as DD!
This year, DebConf will be hosted in one of the top-ranked
countries, namely Switzerland. Guys, 9 more developers and you can
overtake Finland!
We have 37 more active Debian developers and 45 more developers overall.
The ratio of active developers increases from 61.74% to 62.35%