See comments at the end about this 3rd version
This is time again for yet another bubulle game: counting the number of developers per
country. I already published such analysis in
2010 and
2009.
So, here we are with the June 2011 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million
population for each country.
Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
June 2011: rank now
Code |
Name |
Population |
Act Dev |
Dev |
Act/Million |
Dev/Million |
2009 |
2010 |
June 2011 |
fi |
Finland |
5374781 |
21 |
31 |
3,91 |
5,77 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
ch |
Switzerland |
7866500 |
21 |
26 |
2,67 |
3,31 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
mq |
Martinique |
397730 |
1 |
1 |
2,51 |
2,51 |
|
|
3 |
no |
Norway |
4964500 |
12 |
15 |
2,42 |
3,02 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
nz |
New Zealand |
4393500 |
10 |
15 |
2,28 |
3,41 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
ie |
Ireland |
4470700 |
10 |
13 |
2,24 |
2,91 |
13 |
9 |
6 |
se |
Sweden |
9354462 |
19 |
35 |
2,03 |
3,74 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
lu |
Luxemburg |
511840 |
1 |
1 |
1,95 |
1,95 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
de |
Germany |
81802000 |
155 |
221 |
1,89 |
2,7 |
7 |
7 |
9 |
at |
Austria |
8404252 |
15 |
25 |
1,78 |
2,97 |
6 |
8 |
10 |
fr |
France |
63136180 |
91 |
119 |
1,44 |
1,88 |
12 |
12 |
11 |
au |
Australia |
22632213 |
31 |
57 |
1,37 |
2,52 |
9 |
10 |
12 |
be |
Belgium |
11007020 |
15 |
17 |
1,36 |
1,54 |
10 |
11 |
13 |
uk |
United-Kingdom |
62008048 |
67 |
106 |
1,08 |
1,71 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
nl |
Netherlands |
16674600 |
18 |
37 |
1,08 |
2,22 |
11 |
13 |
15 |
dk |
Denmark |
5564219 |
6 |
10 |
1,08 |
1,8 |
17 |
17 |
16 |
ca |
Canada |
34480000 |
27 |
57 |
0,78 |
1,65 |
15 |
15 |
17 |
hr |
Croatia |
4429078 |
3 |
3 |
0,68 |
0,68 |
20 |
18 |
18 |
es |
Spain |
46030109 |
31 |
51 |
0,67 |
1,11 |
16 |
16 |
19 |
lt |
Lithuania |
3225346 |
2 |
2 |
0,62 |
0,62 |
28 |
19 |
20 |
cz |
Czech Rep |
10540748 |
6 |
6 |
0,57 |
0,57 |
21 |
20 |
21 |
it |
Italy |
60605053 |
33 |
47 |
0,54 |
0,78 |
23 |
22 |
22 |
bg |
Bulgaria |
7351254 |
4 |
4 |
0,54 |
0,54 |
25 |
23 |
23 |
il |
Israel |
7602400 |
4 |
6 |
0,53 |
0,79 |
24 |
24 |
24 |
us |
USA |
308745538 |
162 |
364 |
0,52 |
1,18 |
19 |
21 |
25 |
hu |
Hungary |
9979000 |
5 |
11 |
0,5 |
1,1 |
18 |
25 |
26 |
lv |
Latvia |
2245357 |
1 |
1 |
0,45 |
0,45 |
26 |
26 |
27 |
uy |
Uruguay |
3494382 |
1 |
2 |
0,29 |
0,57 |
22 |
27 |
28 |
jp |
Japan |
127960000 |
33 |
46 |
0,26 |
0,36 |
30 |
28 |
29 |
pl |
Poland |
38186860 |
9 |
13 |
0,24 |
0,34 |
29 |
29 |
30 |
cr |
Costa Rica |
4253897 |
1 |
1 |
0,24 |
0,24 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
pt |
Portugal |
10647763 |
2 |
4 |
0,19 |
0,38 |
27 |
32 |
32 |
sk |
Slovakia |
5429763 |
1 |
1 |
0,18 |
0,18 |
32 |
31 |
33 |
gr |
Greece |
11305118 |
2 |
3 |
0,18 |
0,27 |
33 |
38 |
34 |
ar |
Argentina |
40091359 |
7 |
9 |
0,17 |
0,22 |
34 |
33 |
35 |
sv |
El Salvador |
6134000 |
1 |
1 |
0,16 |
0,16 |
|
|
36 |
tw |
Taiwan |
23061689 |
3 |
3 |
0,13 |
0,13 |
37 |
34 |
37 |
br |
Brazil |
190732694 |
20 |
21 |
0,1 |
0,11 |
36 |
35 |
38 |
by |
Belarus |
9648533 |
1 |
1 |
0,1 |
0,1 |
35 |
36 |
39 |
mg |
Madagascar |
20653556 |
2 |
2 |
0,1 |
0,1 |
44 |
37 |
40 |
cu |
Cuba |
11239363 |
1 |
1 |
0,09 |
0,09 |
|
38 |
41 |
kr |
South Korea |
48758000 |
4 |
6 |
0,08 |
0,12 |
39 |
39 |
42 |
ec |
Ecuador |
14790608 |
1 |
1 |
0,07 |
0,07 |
|
40 |
43 |
cl |
Chile |
17224200 |
1 |
2 |
0,06 |
0,12 |
42 |
41 |
44 |
ro |
Romania |
21466174 |
1 |
2 |
0,05 |
0,09 |
45 |
43 |
45 |
co |
Colombia |
45925397 |
2 |
3 |
0,04 |
0,07 |
41 |
44 |
46 |
ru |
Russia |
142905200 |
6 |
7 |
0,04 |
0,05 |
43 |
42 |
47 |
za |
South Africa |
49991300 |
2 |
9 |
0,04 |
0,18 |
38 |
48 |
48 |
my |
Malaysia |
27565821 |
1 |
1 |
0,04 |
0,04 |
|
|
49 |
ve |
Venezuela |
29105632 |
1 |
1 |
0,03 |
0,03 |
40 |
45 |
50 |
pe |
Peru |
29496000 |
1 |
1 |
0,03 |
0,03 |
46 |
46 |
51 |
tr |
Turkey |
73722988 |
2 |
2 |
0,03 |
0,03 |
47 |
47 |
52 |
mx |
Mexico |
112322757 |
2 |
2 |
0,02 |
0,02 |
49 |
49 |
53 |
th |
Thailand |
63878267 |
1 |
2 |
0,02 |
0,03 |
50 |
50 |
54 |
eg |
Egypt |
80085862 |
1 |
3 |
0,01 |
0,04 |
51 |
51 |
55 |
in |
India |
1210193422 |
8 |
8 |
0,01 |
0,01 |
52 |
52 |
56 |
cn |
China |
1339724852 |
7 |
11 |
0,01 |
0,01 |
53 |
53 |
57 |
ua |
Ukraine |
45888000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
53 |
58 |
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896 |
1450 |
61,79% |
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A few interesting facts:
- There are active DDs in 57 countries
- Martinique pops up at rank 3. As this French overseas
"d partement" has its own ISO code, it is counted here separately from
France, though Martinique inhabitants are French citizens. That's of
course a though case but I consider that David did choose to use "MQ"
in his record, which means this is important for him. Let's respect
that wish.
- Norway is now ahead of New Zealand. One more DD since last count
- Sweden is ahead of Luxembourg. Two more DDs since last count
- France takes over Australia and Belgium. *seven* more DDs since
last count!
- UK is ahead of Netherlands now. Three more DDs since last count.
- Denmark passes Canada and Spain (50% more DDs for DK), while
Croatia passes Spain (because Spain lost 3 DDs).
- USA continues to go down (by 3 this time). We're constantly losing
developers over there (-3 in one year).
- And we have a new country in this list as Malaysia now has a
Debian developer. Along with Martinique (ahem), this makes two new
"countries" in this list. No country disappeared.
- For the first time in 12 years, DebConf will be in a country (Bosnia
and Herzegovina) that has NO Debian developer. This has to change.
- We have 23 more active Debian developers and 40 more developers overall.
v2 comment: This is the second version of this blog post. I have been pointed that
the population I was using for "Ireland" is indeed the population of
the entire island, so Republic of Ireland (Eire) plus Northern Ireland
(Ulster). We may guess that people listing "IE" as their country are
citizens of the Republic of Ireland, so the population to use is that
of this part of the island. As a consequence, Ireland is bumped up to
6th rank instead of 9th.
v3 comment: Doh. Since I'm doing this survey, I was always adding
people using "sv" as country to Sweden. This is a quite common mistake
and it was happening in the past. But now, there is only ONE developer
who uses "sv" as country, this is Rene Mayorga and he definitely lives
in El Salvador, not Sweden. As a consequence, Sweden lost one
developer (but keeps its rank) and El Salvador now appears at rank
36. It is not a "new" country as Rene is DD for quite some time.