How Indian developers are taking GitHub by storm
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The latest data from GitHub, the developer platform Microsoft bought in 2018 and now integrated with Copilot, shows an additional 5.2 million developers from India joining the platform in 2025. India was also the single largest source of new developer additions, accounting for a little over 14% of GitHub’s total of 36 million new developers in 2025.
Currently, the platform has over 180 million developers and 630 million total repositories, with 121 million new repositories getting added alone. Open-source and public projects account for nearly 63% of all repositories on GitHub.
According to GitHub projections, by 2030, India would have nearly 57.5 million developers, accounting for more than one in three of all projected signups worldwide. The United States is likely to become number two, with more than 40 million developers expected, while Brazil (19.6 million), Japan (11.7 million), and the United Kingdom (11 million) make up the top 5 countries from which GitHub sees its developers.
Following a free release of Microsoft’s Copilot on GitHub in 2024, the developer platform has seen a surge in activity across repositories, pull requests, and code pushes. According to GitHub data, developers created more than 230 new repositories every minute, merged 43.2 million pull requests on average each month (up 23% YoY), and pushed nearly one billion commits in 2025 (up 25.1% YoY)—including a record of nearly 100 million in August this year. GenAI has also become a widely adopted tool in development, with more than 1.1 million public repositories now using an LLM Software Development Kit, including 693,867 projects created in the past 12 months—a 178% increase from August of last year to August 2025.
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