India accounts for 15% of GitHub’s global user base, with 27 million developers on the platform

The developer base in India on GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development platforms, has grown to 27 million in 2026 from 21.9 million in October 2025.

Kyle Daigle, chief operating officer (COO) of GitHub, said in a post on X that India now accounts for one in seven new developers globally. India now makes up over 15% of GitHub’s global user base of over 180 million developers.




As of October 2025, India ranked second overall, expanding to 21.9 million developers from around 4.5 million in 2020, driven by a significantly higher compound annual growth rate (CAGR). This implies that GitHub added 5.1 million developers since October, with two million joining in just the last four months. This highlights steady incremental growth in its developer base in India.

Daigle shared that India has also emerged as the largest open-source contributor base globally and ranks second overall in contributions, with over 7.5 million contributions to open-source artificial intelligence (AI) projects.

He noted that a large share of these developers is based in Bengaluru. These statistics come at a time when India is seeing rising digital adoption and increasing use of AI-powered coding tools that lower entry barriers and improve problem-solving efficiency.

“Behind India’s economic growth is a relentless community of devs. Grateful we got to celebrate on the ground with so many of them here in Bengaluru,” Daigle added.

Per GitHub’s Octoverse Report 2025, the United States held the top position in total developer count, growing from around 10.2 million in 2020 to 28 million in 2025. This suggests that the US remains the largest developer base, while India is emerging as the fastest-scaling major developer ecosystem globally.

This growth comes against the backdrop of Microsoft, which acquired GitHub in 2018, committing $17.5 billion in India through 2029 to strengthen cloud and AI infrastructure, operations, and skilling. As part of this investment, the company had announced its mission to train 20 million people in AI skills by 2030.