Algeria Developer Index

Where Algeria stands, Q1 2026

Algeria’s place in the global developer community, the outlook for 2030 and six measures of activity and reach.

Data
Q1 2026
Released
7 Jul 2026
Updated
Quarterly
Licence
CC0

01 · Measured today

Algeria on the world map

Start with community size: Algeria’s position among the economies reported in the GitHub Innovation Graph.

Global position by account count
#50of 229 reported economies
Developer accounts in Algeria
586,990
Growth over the same quarter a year earlier
+49.1%
The five largest reported communities and Algeria · Q1 2026
  1. 01United States32,410,529
  2. 02India26,727,004
  3. 03China11,351,939
  4. 04Brazil8,317,960
  5. 05United Kingdom5,559,767
  6. 50Algeria586,990

djazair.dev calculates these ranks from account counts. Countries and territories are included; the EU aggregate is excluded to avoid counting its members twice. Ties share a rank. Accounts include inactive ones and are located by network address. This measures community size, not open-source contribution or code quality.

Source: GitHub Innovation Graph · Q1 2026. Download country standings (CSV)

02 · GitHub’s published outlook

The developer landscape in 2030

Explore the country projections published in Octoverse 2025. These are future totals, rather than accounts added.

Choose a comparison
Five African communities included in GitHub’s forecast

Projected accounts in 2030 · millions

  1. Egypt4.1M
  2. Nigeria3.3M
  3. South Africa2.7M
  4. Kenya1.9M
  5. Morocco1.4M
The ten largest projected communities in GitHub’s chart

Projected accounts in 2030 · millions

  1. India57.5M
  2. United States54.7M
  3. Brazil19.6M
  4. China17.7M
  5. Japan11.7M
  6. United Kingdom11.0M
  7. Germany9.8M
  8. Indonesia8.7M
  9. Canada7.2M
  10. Egypt4.1M

Published forecast · September 2025 baseline. Algeria is not included in this forecast.

How to read these projections

The chart reports the mean of five models. GitHub’s methodology reports backtesting error below 30% (MAPE); that is not a confidence interval. Future economic, geopolitical and product changes can alter the outcome. Octoverse uses self-reported locations, while our quarterly standings use network addresses.

Source: GitHub Octoverse 2025 · published 28 October 2025. Read GitHub’s Octoverse · Forecast data (JSON)

03 · Explore a possibility

Algeria’s path to one million

What would steady annual growth mean for Algeria by Q1 2030? Adjust the rate to explore a possible path.

Developer accounts by Q1 2030
1,026,649
Annual growth needed to reach one million
+14.25%
Illustrative growth paths from Q1 2026 to Q1 2030

One million 1,000,000

Q1 2026Q1 2030

Your scenario · 15%

Reference paths: 10%, 15% and 20% annual growth

An illustrative djazair.dev scenario, not a GitHub forecast. It compounds a constant annual rate from 586,990 accounts in Q1 2026. Actual growth varies; more accounts does not automatically mean more contributions.

Compare the example scenarios
Compare the example scenarios
Annual growth assumptionAccounts at Q1 2030
+10%859,412
+15%1,026,649
+20%1,217,182

Calculation: starting accounts × (1 + annual growth rate) raised to the number of years. The target is Q1 2030, not the end of 2030.

04 · Look beyond size

Six measures. A clearer picture.

Explore activity, reach and regional comparisons. Each indicator stands on its own; there is no combined score.

Rank 1 means the highest value, not the best code or developers. The green square marks Algeria’s place. Trend charts use separate vertical scales; compare the lines within each card.

Who is Algeria compared with?
North Africa
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, Tunisia.
Africa
29 African economies with at least 20,000 developer accounts in Q1 2025.
The six peers
Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa.

The median is the middle value in a group. The first four cards show North Africa and Africa ranks and medians. The last two compare Algeria with the six-peer median and rank it within Algeria + those six peers; their bars show the three peers with the highest values.

01

Developer accounts

Q1 2026
586,990▲ 49.1% in a year
Quarterly trend
2020 Q12026 Q1
  • Algeria
North Africa3rd of 7
Africa6th of 29

Comparison medians

N. Africa
420,582
Core peers
982,702
Africa (29)
87,857
What this measures

Measures

  • Accounts GitHub places in Algeria at the end of the quarter
  • A running total since accounts were created

Doesn’t measure

  • Active developers: dormant accounts still count
  • People using a VPN, who appear elsewhere
02

Pushes per account

Q1 2026
1.06▲ 110% vs Q1 2025−20% vs N. Africa
Quarterly trend
2020 Q12026 Q1
  • Algeria
  • North Africa median
North Africa5th of 7
Africa26th of 29

Comparison medians

N. Africa
1.34
Core peers
1.48
Africa (29)
1.69
What this measures

Measures

  • Pushes in the quarter, divided by all accounts
  • Web-interface edits, which count as pushes

Doesn’t measure

  • Commits: one push can hold many
  • Code quality or impact
03

Public repositories per account

Q1 2026
1.04▼ 7% vs Q1 2025−32% vs N. Africa
Quarterly trend
2020 Q12026 Q1
  • Algeria
  • North Africa median
North Africa5th of 7
Africa27th of 29

Comparison medians

N. Africa
1.52
Core peers
2.19
Africa (29)
1.75
What this measures

Measures

  • Public repositories per account, both running totals

Doesn’t measure

  • Private repositories
  • Whether repositories are maintained
04

Organisations per account

Q1 2026
0.0315▼ 26% vs Q1 2025= N. Africa median
Quarterly trend
2020 Q12026 Q1
  • Algeria
  • North Africa median
North Africa4th of 7
Africa25th of 29

Comparison medians

N. Africa
0.0315
Core peers
0.0430
Africa (29)
0.0428
What this measures

Measures

  • GitHub organisations per account: teams, companies, clubs

Doesn’t measure

  • Size or activity of each organisation
05

Topics above GitHub’s threshold

Q1 2026
3−81% vs peers
Algeria and the three highest-valued peers
Egypt37
Nigeria23
Tunisia18
Algeria3
Algeria and 6 peers7th of 7

Comparison medians

Core peers
15.5
What this measures

Measures

  • Topics GitHub publishes for Algeria: those used by 100+ developers

Doesn’t measure

  • Smaller topics, which GitHub hides
06

Accounts per million people

Q1 2026
12,375−18% vs peers
Algeria and the three highest-valued peers
Tunisia34,059
Morocco23,585
South Africa16,356
Algeria12,375
Algeria and 6 peers5th of 7

Comparison medians

Core peers
15,048
What this measures

Measures

  • Developer accounts relative to population (World Bank, latest year)

Doesn’t measure

  • The share of people who code

Sources: GitHub Innovation Graph (CC0), Q1 2026 data released 7 July 2026 · World Bank population, 2025 (CC BY 4.0).