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A fun statistic is that Scratch now has over 100 million projects published by users on their website[1].

GitHub only reached 100m repos in 2018[2] - I can't find any more up-to-date numbers, but it's probably around 150m today.

It's crazy to think that Scratch and GitHub operate on similar orders of magnitude.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/statistics/

[2] https://github.blog/2018-11-08-100m-repos/

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Maybe one of the reasons for sudden increase in the projects are companies such as Whitehat Jr. Whitehat incorporates and leverages Scratch in their lesson plans. For each lesson kids may be creating 1-3 Scratch programs. You can read more about Whitehat Jr, their approach to sales etc by doing a little googling. And am sure there are other companies who follow the same practice of leveraging Scratch in tutorials. (edit) Not condoning this, just adding more information.

The first week of Harvard's CS50 involves the creation of a little program in Scratch too.

That's also where many github repos come from. I've seen the instructions to fork the teacher's repo when doing searches.

Pretty sure they're owned by BYJU'S now, an Indian Edutech firm. Lookup some of the horrible reviews about how they run business.

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