China: there are 59% more GitHub accounts than in 2020, but 2.7 times fewer code pushes
From 2020 to 2025 accounts located in the country rose from 6.97M to 11.1M, while code pushes a year fell from 22.8M to 8.54M. Public repositories: 18.4M instead of 22.3M.
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Accounts and repositories are counts at year-end, including abandoned ones; pushes are how many times code was uploaded to GitHub during the year.
One percentage scale relative to 2020: 0% is the starting value, +100% is a doubling, −50% is a halving. Lines show the yearly path; on a short screen, bars show the change to 2025. Equal distances mean equal relative changes. For shares, this is relative change, not percentage points. Gaps are not filled; original values and units are below.
- GitHub developer accounts at year end accounts
6,968,848 (2020) → 11,063,589 (2025)
- GitHub git pushes git pushes
22,840,723 (2020) → 8,536,391 (2025)
- GitHub repositories at year end repositories
22,263,274 (2020) → 18,399,604 (2025)
Start: 2020; end: the latest year up to 2025 with every series (2025). Published values, no gap filling or smoothing. Thresholds select a story and do not establish statistical significance.
GitHub only, not all programmers. Location is the one given in the profile, not nationality. A push can contain many commits. Small groups are suppressed; missing is not zero.
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How do the languages and topics of public code change?