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Comment by davstr1 | Hacker News Reader

Someone should compile this against each country population number. Would be interesting to get an approx number of coders per 1000 people in each country. And then perhaps run it against natality rates.

Github list they used as a source : https://github.com/github/innovationgraph/blob/main/data/dev...

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  developers iso2_code population fraction
  20226711 US 335893238 6.02%
  15528470 EU 448387872 3.46%
  13326416 IN 1392329000 0.96%
  9131545 CN 1409670000 0.65%
  4315369 BR 203080756 2.12%
  3422806 GB 67026292 5.11%
  3060711 RU 146424729 2.09%
  2972917 DE 84607016 3.51%
  2938205 ID 279118866 1.05%
  2886350 JP 124090000 2.33%
  2479673 CA 40528396 6.12%

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.

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.

Oh huh wow, why do I have 85 followers on GitHub? What do you even see if you "follow" someone?

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.

I’m #7 in Philippines, I am not sure why. I’m just forking things.

> Would be interesting to get an approx number of coders per 1000 people

Isn't everyone a coder? You are going to be exposed to it at school, if nothing else. Which, assuming the numbers bear any reflection to reality, is what I expect a lot of the accounts to be (that is, students).

But as far as those who do it professionally, as of November 2022, Statistics Canada reports 301,875 people under "Computer, software and Web designers and developers". There were 2.1 million GitHub accounts in that year.

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