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Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents
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Developers pushed code to GitHub 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined.
Key facts
- The United States (38.3 million) and India (32 million) remain the two largest developer communities, and each added more than 10 million developers this year
- Last year, they projected that India would reach 57.5 million developers by 2030 and the United States 54.7 million
- By September 2026, more than 40% of pull requests on GitHub started with an agent’s first draft, up from 17% in March
- Developers pushed code to GitHub 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined
Summary
Behind that number are developers building what interests them and what their communities need. Elsewhere, developers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are creating software designed to run programs aboard spacecraft, and fans built open-source firmware that lets people customize their e-readers. That growth happened quickly. Octoverse is their chance to step back and look at the whole picture. More AI, more of everything.