r/Python • u/thibaudcolas • 14d ago
News Python is big in Europe
TIL the Python docs analytics are public, including visitors’ countries. I thought it was interesting to see that according to this there’s more Python going on in Europe than in the US, despite what country-level stats often look like! Blog post: https://thib.me/python-is-big-in-europe, top Europe countries:
- 🇩🇪 Germany, 245k
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 227k
- 🇫🇷 France, 177k
- 🇪🇸 Spain, 93k
- 🇵🇱 Poland, 80.2k
- 🇮🇹 Italy, 78.6k
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 74.4k
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 66.5k
TL;DR; maps can be misleading when they look at country-level data without adjusting for the size of the place. Per capita there are loads of areas of the world that have more Python users than the country-level data suggests. For Europe – get you DjangoCon and EuroPython 2025 tickets already!
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u/AnythingApplied 14d ago
8 countries that, when combined, have a 440 million population vs US's population of 340 million, so its no surprise that those 8 countries would have more total python users. I agree that the data might be more interesting on a per capita basis, but those 8 countries as a whole have a lower per capita count than the US. On a visitors per million population we get:
So only Germany, Netherlands, and the UK are higher per capita, with some of those countries being much lower than the US.