9.75 million developers in India use GitHub, 2nd largest after US

Software development collaboration platform GitHub has said that 9.75 million developers in India are now using its platform, making the country the second largest developer community on GitHub, behind the US.

More than 2.5 million Indians joined the platform over the past year — a 35 per cent year-over-year (YoY) increase.

If this user growth continues, GitHub predicts that users in India will match the current US GitHub developer population by 2025.

“India’s growing developer community is central to the country’s position as an innovation powerhouse, and open source is at the heart of this.