GitHub has revealed that there are over 15.4 million developers in India building on GitHub, growing 33% year-over-year (YoY). India is set to pass the United States as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027.
With this growth, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke highlighted that India’s burgeoning developer community, combined with the newfound possibilities of AI, will not only accelerate digital transformation, but will drive immense human and economic progress for India.
During his address to technology leaders at GitHub Galaxy Bengaluru, Dohmke said, “Where software developers are, economic growth follows. By 2027, India will overtake the United States as the largest software developer community on Earth. This alone signals incredible prosperity ahead, but there’s more to it. At the same time India’s developer population is booming, the Age of AI has begun.
“Developers are already 55% faster when using Copilot, meaning the software economy, valued globally in the trillions, is moving rapidly faster because of AI. In a way that no other country on Earth can claim: India is on the brink of a great convergence between the world’s largest population of developers and the newfound possibility of AI. If enabled, this great convergence will generate a consequential economic boom in India that could be felt around the world for generations to come.
“India will not just be a global leader, but the global leader in the age of AI. Children and adults alike will learn to code in their native language, leading to a prolonged groundswell of developers. Creativity in Indian open source will flourish, blooming a spring of AI innovations and startups. And Indian businesses will carve a competitive advantage in the global market, as their developers build software with an accelerated speed of code,” Dohmke added.
Today, GitHub Copilot has 1.8 million paid subscribers, and has been adopted by over 50,000 organisations globally. In India, GitHub revealed that it continues to see adoption of its Copilot-powered platform by companies in every industry, including Infosys, Cognizant,
GitHub also showed how open source communities in India are leveraging GitHub Copilot to build digital solutions that are helping save lives, such as Open Healthcare Network, a pioneering open source organisation dedicated to enhancing healthcare delivery and management. Open Healthcare Network represents a unique blend of professional expertise and community-driven innovation. Fueled by a small team of dedicated developers, GitHub Copilot is accelerating the project's growth as it addresses the needs of the country's healthcare system.
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