Drupal.org country demographics
Where is the Drupal community from? Every registered user on http://drupal.org can optionally specify what country he or she is from. I've used that information to render the table below. How is your country doing?
| Current | One year ago | Two years ago | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Rank | % | Rank | % | Rank | % |
| United States | 1 | 33.12 | 1 | 35.54 | 1 | 31.36 |
| India | 2 | 5.68 | 3 | 4.89 | 4 | 4.14 |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5.14 | 2 | 5.8 | 2 | 5.07 |
| Canada | 5 | 4.23 | 4 | 4.79 | 3 | 4.26 |
| Germany | 6 | 3.03 | 5 | 2.78 | 6 | 2.32 |
| Australia | 7 | 2.22 | 7 | 2.47 | 7 | 2.14 |
| China | 8 | 1.95 | 6 | 2.59 | 5 | 2.36 |
| Spain | 9 | 1.91 | 8 | 2.16 | 8 | 1.91 |
| Netherlands | 10 | 1.84 | 10 | 1.91 | 10 | 1.66 |
| Italy | 11 | 1.83 | 9 | 1.95 | 9 | 1.71 |
| France | 12 | 1.79 | 12 | 1.53 | 12 | 1.31 |
| Russian Federation | 13 | 1.59 | 14 | 1.29 | 14 | 1.06 |
| Indonesia | 14 | 1.58 | 17 | 1.1 | 17 | 0.93 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1.58 | 11 | 1.69 | 11 | 1.49 |
| Belgium | 16 | 1.35 | 15 | 1.25 | 15 | 1.04 |
| Hungary | 17 | 1.03 | 18 | 0.92 | 19 | 0.78 |
| Philippines | 18 | 0.99 | 19 | 0.9 | 18 | 0.79 |
| Turkey | 19 | 0.97 | 16 | 1.12 | 16 | 0.99 |
| Poland | 20 | 0.91 | 22 | 0.74 | 23 | 0.63 |
| Sweden | 21 | 0.81 | 20 | 0.83 | 20 | 0.72 |
| Viet Nam | 22 | 0.77 | 27 | 0.62 | 26 | 0.54 |
| Thailand | 23 | 0.75 | 24 | 0.71 | 25 | 0.59 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 0.72 | 21 | 0.76 | 21 | 0.68 |
| Mexico | 25 | 0.69 | 23 | 0.71 | 24 | 0.6 |
| South Africa | 26 | 0.69 | 25 | 0.7 | 22 | 0.64 |
| Czech Republic | 27 | 0.65 | 29 | 0.59 | 28 | 0.52 |
| Argentina | 28 | 0.57 | 26 | 0.63 | 27 | 0.53 |
| Romania | 29 | 0.57 | 32 | 0.53 | 33 | 0.45 |
| Ukraine | 30 | 0.54 | 41 | 0.43 | 42 | 0.35 |
| Denmark | 31 | 0.52 | 33 | 0.52 | 32 | 0.46 |
| Portugal | 32 | 0.52 | 28 | 0.59 | 29 | 0.52 |
| Switzerland | 33 | 0.5 | 39 | 0.45 | 41 | 0.36 |
| Israel | 34 | 0.47 | 36 | 0.47 | 39 | 0.39 |
| Norway | 35 | 0.46 | 30 | 0.55 | 31 | 0.48 |
| Iran | 36 | 0.46 | 42 | 0.43 | 40 | 0.37 |
| New Zealand | 37 | 0.45 | 37 | 0.46 | 36 | 0.41 |
| Singapore | 38 | 0.44 | 31 | 0.54 | 30 | 0.49 |
| Pakistan | 39 | 0.44 | 44 | 0.4 | 45 | 0.33 |
| Austria | 40 | 0.43 | 43 | 0.41 | 43 | 0.34 |
Update: snufkin used this data to create some cool pie charts.
Very surprised to see Afghanistan so high!
May 27, 2008 - 11:18Nice. It would also be interesting to see the absolute numbers.
May 27, 2008 - 11:23I know this is not ideal, but you can get the absolute numbers for a particular country by going to a URL like http://drupal.org/profile/country/Canada and clicking on "Last" page (eg: http://drupal.org/profile/country/Canada?page=489 ). Multiply the page-number by 20 (the number of names on a page) ~= 9780.
May 27, 2008 - 11:27I think you can discount the "Afghanistan" results - as it's the first/default option on the edit-profile page, and internet uptake in Afghanistan is very (very) low.
May 27, 2008 - 11:23http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/af.htm
Absolutely. This is a nice example for how you shouldn't trust user-contributed data.
May 27, 2008 - 12:58... and a nice example for how you shouldn't make Afghanistan (or any country for that matter) the default ;-)
(BTW: Country is a required field.)
May 27, 2008 - 14:00I would also be pleased to see the absolute numbers. As a coordinator of the French marketing group I was looking for such figures that demonstrate the positive dynamic of the Drupal community, in France and all over the world.
May 27, 2008 - 11:29as lyricnz proposed. Works fine for me. If you are only interested in the numbers of France, this is easy to get.
May 27, 2008 - 11:38As of now there are 301953 users ... just multiply by the %s
May 27, 2008 - 11:43I would say that these data don't matter. It is not accurate.
We should take a look at the log files to figure out how each country progress. The data of web analytics is more accurate.
May 27, 2008 - 13:45Sure, the data is not fully accurate but (i) it doesn't have to be deadly accurate to be useful, and (ii) what supports you claim that the data of web analytics is more accurate? The data is useful but it should be interpreted properly. Similarly, web analytics data is interesting in its own right.
May 27, 2008 - 16:13We have analytics data available at http://drupal.org/node/261978. It is always interesting to have different sources of information to compare them.
Based on the numbers here we have around 45,16% native English speakers and 50,20% with English as a second language (The rest speaks Paschtu or Dari ;). These numbers roughly match my calculations with the web statistics.
May 28, 2008 - 07:12At 300K users, even a half percent is 1500 people, so I say these numbers do matter. However, normalized with the number of people per country would be rather interesting... My bet is the Netherlands would beat even the USA for example (the USA has a population of 18.5 times Netherlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population ).
May 27, 2008 - 15:08This is where SPARQL would be awesome.
May 27, 2008 - 16:09Good idea. I tried to translate the numbers into pixels, for the balanced chart I just divided the percentages by the population.
Looks interesting, USA equals on the balanced plot to most of the enthusiastic but small countries. Its interesting how countries with huge population completely disappear, like China, India.
May 27, 2008 - 19:11I'd like to "weight" the total numbers of users per country by their "activity" (whatever would be a good metric for this) and normalize afterwards.
May 28, 2008 - 08:33Think that number would also be fine for marketing purposes of commenter Ineation.
Also, I would drop Afghanistan from the stats.
Nepal is not even in the list :-(.
May 29, 2008 - 05:17Would be interesting to compare these numbers to the total number of computers connected to the Internet by country (as far as these are known).
Maybe this would give India and China a chance to make it to the top five.
May 29, 2008 - 06:29To improve the Afghanistan stats (for users who sign up from now on) just need to make sure that it's not the default option already selected when you sign up, i.e. force the user to actually select something.
And maybe get existing "Afghan" users to select again ...
May 31, 2008 - 11:12Canada has the highest per-capita Drupal usage of any country except Belgium :)
June 4, 2008 - 21:54If Drupal had a nice Persian date support then Iran would be top10 as there's a unbelievable thirst for Drupal here in Persia. Many developers love it so far but when asking if it supports Persian date (aka Jalali date, Shamsi date, Solar date) they prefer to go with either WP or Joomla.
We've created a hack though, but not working when editing a node or etc. Is there anyway you guys could help?
June 15, 2008 - 07:03Did you consider submitting a patch that improves Persian date support? I don't see why I would not commit it.
June 15, 2008 - 07:56hi there, I hope there would be a Drupal seminar or Convention in the Philippines soon!
June 19, 2008 - 09:49Kinda sad to see Belgium so low in the list.
But considering our small size, I suppose we score alright. :p
June 20, 2008 - 12:53Thanks Dries.
By-the-way, what are the estimates for Drupal's installed base? How many sites are running Drupal? Or, perhaps also, how many Drupal downloads have there been? Are there other metrics for determining the Drupal installed base?
I am getting this type of inquiry.
Thanks in advance.
Best,
- Seth
June 25, 2008 - 22:32I'm a bit disappointed to see that Japan is nowhere on that list. I can only assume that part of the reason for it's slow uptake here has been the rather disappointing support for multilingual content.
Drupal 6 was a big step toward international support but some critical issues remain and these were (are) stoppers for international sites on which I've worked. Both below are issues in contributed modules but the first (multilingual menus) should be moved to core.
http://drupal.org/node/230868
http://drupal.org/node/108117
Then again it could just be that the Drupal Japan site looks pretty cheezy.
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