Measured · Q1 2026
Global account standings
All reported economies in Q1 2026, with account totals, annual growth and calculated ranks. The EU aggregate is excluded.
Data
Data and downloads
Download the data, understand how it is measured, and reuse it with confidence. Quarterly snapshots, country datasets and their sources are kept together here.
On this page
Tables
The 12 tables of the Q1 2026 data, computed from GitHub Innovation Graph release 054c7dbc5275. The data dictionary describes every column.
Algeria at a glance
overviewAlgeria’s latest value of each indicator, a year earlier, and its place and the median in each peer group.
9 rowsAlgeria and its peers
peersAlgeria, the rest of North Africa and the core peers in the latest quarter, with the counts behind each ratio.
10 rowsPeer groups and medians
groupsThe members of each peer group in every quarter, and the median of each indicator across them.
96 rowsRanks
ranksEvery member’s place in each peer group for each indicator, in the latest quarter.
441 rowsQuarterly series
trendsEvery indicator in every quarter since 2020 Q1 for Algeria, North Africa and the core peers, with the group medians.
2,925 rowsLanguages
languagesDevelopers who pushed in each language in the latest quarter and a year earlier, for Algeria and its peers.
456 rowsLanguages in Algeria since 2020
languages_algeriaDevelopers in Algeria who pushed in each language, every quarter since 2020 Q1.
687 rowsTopics
topicsThe topics GitHub publishes for each economy in the latest quarter: those with 100 or more developers pushing.
112 rowsAlgeria’s collaboration partners
collaborationGit pushes and pull requests between Algeria and other economies, both ways, every quarter.
356 rowsGitHub’s GDC26 rankings
gdc26GitHub’s one-off GDC26 lists, Africa’s top ten by pushes per 1,000 working-age people and the 30 economies with the most pushes, with djazair.dev’s estimate for Algeria and its peers.
52 rowsEvery economy, every quarter
indicatorsEvery indicator for every economy in the release, every quarter since 2020 Q1. Empty where an input is missing, never zero.
5,656 rowsRevised past values
revisionsPast values this release changed, against the release archived before it.
0 rows
The manifest lists every file with its size and SHA-256 checksum, so you can check what you downloaded.
Q1 2026 is the first quarter published. Earlier quarters will stay online, unchanged, as new ones arrive.
Country standings and forecasts
These files are separate from the quarterly CSV bundle. Measured counts and published forecasts have different sources and time periods.
Published forecast · 2030
GitHub’s country outlook
Octoverse 2025’s projected country totals for 2030, with a September 2025 baseline and source metadata. No Algeria forecast is included.
Chart data
CSV and JSON for the Index’s trend and comparison charts, grouped by page. Country standings and the published outlook have separate downloads above.
Trends
- Developer accounts, growth from Q1 to Q1
trends-q-growthCSVJSON - Developer accounts, 2020–2026
trends-accounts-actualCSVJSON - Developer accounts, indexed to 2020 Q1 = 100
trends-accounts-indexedCSVJSON - Pushes per account, 2020–2026
trends-pushes-actualCSVJSON - Pushes per account, indexed to 2020 Q1 = 100
trends-pushes-indexedCSVJSON - Repositories per account, 2020–2026
trends-repos-actualCSVJSON - Repositories per account, indexed to 2020 Q1 = 100
trends-repos-indexedCSVJSON - Organisations per account, 2020–2026
trends-orgs-actualCSVJSON - Organisations per account, indexed to 2020 Q1 = 100
trends-orgs-indexedCSVJSON
How to read the data
Accounts measure community size, not active contributors or code quality. Open a panel to inspect the sources, formulas, comparison groups and limits.
Sources
Five public sources. Octoverse supplies the separate 2030 outlook; those projections are not quarterly observations. The scorecard uses the Innovation Graph and World Bank population, and the GitHub API feeds the Project Hub. GDC26 is kept for comparisons with GitHub’s own country rankings.
| Source | What it provides | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Innovation Graph | Eight files covering 230 economies since Q1 2020: developers, pushes, repositories, organisations, languages, topics, licences and collaborators. | CC0 | Quarterly, 3 to 4.5 months after the quarter |
| GDC26 supplementary data | VPN-corrected pushes and pushes per 1,000 working-age people, top 10 per region. | CC0 | One-off, September 2026 |
| World Bank | Population and working-age population. | CC BY 4.0 | Yearly |
| GitHub REST API | Hub only: repository details, issues and pull requests. | GitHub terms | Every 6 hours |
| GitHub Octoverse 2025 | Published country account projections for 2030, based on September 2025. No Algeria forecast is provided. | Original GitHub publication | Published October 2025 |
- 83 days
- 85 days
- 99 days
- 61 daysQ1 2026 data
Indicators and formulas
Notation: c is an economy, q a quarter and q-4 the same quarter a year earlier. Every indicator is computed for every economy, because ranks and medians need them all.
Developer accounts
developers(c, q)Accounts located in the economy at the end of the quarter. A running total, located by network address. Includes inactive accounts; excludes bots and spam.
Year-on-year growth
developers(c, q) / developers(c, q-4) - 1Compares a quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, so seasonal swings cancel out.
Growth since 2020
developers(c, q) / developers(c, 2020 Q1) - 1Also shown as an index, with 2020 Q1 = 100, on the Trends page.
Pushes per account
git_pushes(c, q) / developers(c, q)Pushes during the quarter divided by all accounts. A four-quarter average smooths spikes: Σ pushes over the last 4 quarters / mean accounts over them / 4.
Public repositories per account
repositories(c, q) / developers(c, q)Both are running totals. Public repositories only.
Organisations per account
organizations(c, q) / developers(c, q)Both are running totals.
Accounts per million people
developers(c, q) / population(c) × 10⁶Population from the World Bank, latest year: 2025 for Q1 2026 data.
Topics above the threshold
count(topics(c, q))GitHub publishes a topic only once 100 or more developers use it.
Developers pushing in a language
num_pushers(c, q, language)Developers who pushed in the language during the quarter. One developer can push in several languages, so the counts can’t be added up. GitHub lists a language once 100 or more developers push in it.
Collaboration with another economy
weight(source → owner, q)Git pushes sent and pull requests opened by developers in the source economy to repositories owned in another, as GitHub publishes them above its threshold. GitHub calls it a lower bound. Its row for the EU is the sum of the members it lists, so rankings and totals leave it out.
Pushes per 1,000 working-age people, estimated
Σ git_pushes(c, 2025 Q3 … 2026 Q2) / working_age(c, 2025) × 1,000GitHub’s GDC26 ranking, a one-off, uses the same formula on pushes it corrects for VPN use with the locations in developers’ profiles. djazair.dev can’t make that correction, so its figure for an economy GitHub doesn’t list is an estimate from network addresses, and a quarter not released yet repeats the latest one.
Peer median
median(indicator over group members with data)The middle value, so one large economy can’t pull it far.
Rank
position in descending orderWithin the ranking group. Ties share a rank.
- Year-on-year growth586,990 / 393,565 − 1+49.1%
- Pushes per account623,978 / 586,9901.06
- Repositories per account610,032 / 586,9901.04
- Organisations per account18,514 / 586,9900.0315
- Accounts per million people586,990 / 47,435,312 × 10⁶12,375
Peer groups
North Africa
7- Algeria
- Egypt
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Sudan
- Tunisia
Medians and ranks. Every member counts, whatever its size.
Core peers
6- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- South Africa
Comparison table and medians. North African neighbours with large ecosystems, plus Africa’s largest.
Africa ranking group
29African economies with at least 20,000 accounts a year earlier (29 in Q1 2026).
Ranks and medians. The minimum size keeps small bases from distorting growth.
We compare Algeria with group medians rather than with one neighbour at a time. Medians are steadier, and single-country comparisons can read as rivalry.
Known limitations
Read these before quoting a number. They are also summarised next to each chart.
What “developer accounts” counts
- Accounts are not active developers. The count is a running total that includes dormant accounts.
- Location is by network address, so VPN use distorts it. GitHub’s GDC26 data corrects pushes using profile locations; the main dataset does not.
Repositories and pushes
- Repositories counts public repositories only.
- A push can contain many commits, and edits in GitHub’s web interface count as pushes.
- Push totals change rapidly: the US +87% and Algeria +214% year on year in Q1 2026. Counts alone do not explain the cause; compare countries and activity per account.
Thresholds and coverage
- A 100-developer threshold hides small categories. Only 3 of Algeria’s topics clear it.
- Translation work done on platforms like Weblate or Crowdin is pushed from their servers, so it doesn’t count as Algerian activity.
Timing
- The data lags by 3 to 4.5 months after each quarter ends.
- Revisions are flagged. Each release is archived, and any past value a new release changes is listed in the changelog.
Update process
The five steps below run automatically on GitHub Actions. Flagged revisions still need editorial review.
detectDailyLook for a new commit to the Innovation Graph’s data folder. If there is one, download every file, record its SHA-256 checksum and archive it. Archived releases are never overwritten.
validateOn releaseCheck columns, types and quarter coverage. If anything fails, the last good site stays live and an issue is opened on GitHub.
computeOn releaseCompute every indicator for every economy and quarter, written as CSV and JSON under
data/derived/.testOn releaseThe published 2026 Q1 baseline must still match exactly. A changed past value is flagged as a revision for editorial review.
deployWithin 24 hoursThe data pages build and deploy automatically.
Addresses for code
Stable addresses, served with CORS, so code and pages on other sites can fetch them. latest.json names the newest quarter’s folder; a folder never changes once a newer quarter is out.
# The newest quarter, as {"folder": "yyyy-qn", …}
latest: https://djazair.dev/data/latest.json
# One quarter’s files (2026-Q1)
table: https://djazair.dev/data/2026-q1/<table>.csv
json: https://djazair.dev/data/2026-q1/<table>.json
manifest: https://djazair.dev/data/2026-q1/manifest.json
zip: https://djazair.dev/data/2026-q1/djazair.dev-index-2026-q1-csv.zip
# The data behind a chart
chart: https://djazair.dev/charts/2026-q1/<chart>.csvChangelog
One entry per data release, with any revised past values flagged, and the changes to the site worth knowing about.
- Index v1. First public release: the scorecard, peers, trends, languages, topics, collaboration and GitHub’s GDC26 ranking, with the methodology and every table as CSV and JSON.
- Q1 2026 data. Innovation Graph release 054c7dbc5275.
Corrections
Every correction to a published number or statement, with the date the error was found and the date it was fixed. Corrections are published within 7 days of discovery.
No corrections yet.
Licence and attribution
The quarterly derived data is CC0 1.0. World Bank inputs are CC BY 4.0; credit the World Bank when reusing population-based measures. Our text and charts are CC BY 4.0. The separate Octoverse file records numerical facts and links to GitHub’s original publication; this does not relicense GitHub’s article or artwork.
djazair.dev. Algeria Developer Index, Q1 2026. https://djazair.dev/en/data/. Data: GitHub Innovation Graph (CC0). Population: World Bank (CC BY 4.0).
Population figures are the World Bank’s for 2025.