In 2024, over 17 million developers in India are actively building on GitHub, a Microsoft-powered platform supported by Copilot. According to GitHub, this represents a 28% growth, positioning India as one of the fastest-growing developer communities worldwide.
Additionally, India now ranks second globally in GitHub Education users, contributions to public generative AI projects, and open-source contributions. GitHub Education provides essential resources for students and educators to learn and teach software development.
The company’s latest Octoverse report highlights a surge in generative AI activity in India, indicating that AI has progressed beyond the experimental phase 2023, with many developers and companies now focusing on tangible outcomes.
“Our latest Octoverse report affirms that India’s developer community is the fastest-growing developer population on the planet. India’s rise as a global tech titan is now inexorable. Not only this, but India’s booming developer community is using AI to build AI in record numbers, making it evermore likely that the next great multinational will come from India,” said GitHub CEO, Thomas Dohmke.
India is quickly becoming the second-largest developer community contributing to public generative AI projects on GitHub, following the United States. Contributions from Indian developers have surged 79% from last year. Notably, India’s involvement in these projects has grown by 95% year-over-year, ranking it third globally, just after the US and Hong Kong (SAR).
India’s developers are making impactful contributions to society through open-source projects like ERPNext. This project has the highest number of contributions under GitHub’s “For Good First Issue” category, connecting developers with initiatives to solve societal challenges and promote sustainable development.
Additionally, Indian open-source communities are leveraging GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding tool, to create digital solutions. For instance, the Open Healthcare Network, an open-source group, focuses on enhancing healthcare delivery and management.
GitHub forecasts that India will surpass the US as the world’s largest developer community by 2028. During its tenth annual developer conference, GitHub Universe ’24, the company introduced significant updates to its Copilot-powered platform.
Copilot is now evolving into a multi-model system, giving developers access to top AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and o1-mini, which all offer advanced coding support. GitHub also unveiled GitHub Spark, a new AI tool that lets users create personalized, fully functional web apps using only natural language.
As a Microsoft Copilot-powered platform, GitHub enables developers to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Today, more than 100 million developers rely on GitHub, including over 90% of Fortune 100 companies. Additionally, over 77,000 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
