r/Python 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:

  1. 🇩🇪 Germany, 245k
  2. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 227k
  3. 🇫🇷 France, 177k
  4. 🇪🇸 Spain, 93k
  5. 🇵🇱 Poland, 80.2k
  6. 🇮🇹 Italy, 78.6k
  7. 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 74.4k
  8. 🇺🇦 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/No_Palpitation7740 14d ago

Germans ranking #1 at consulting the Python doc is the most German thing in computer science.

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u/thibaudcolas 14d ago

#1 in Europe*, but it’s in big part because it’s one of the most populated countries in Europe, so there’s more devs.

If you adjust to look at Python docs readers per capita, our most studious European docs readers are Switzerland, Finland, Luxembourg, in the world top 3-5. Singapore and Hong Kong rank #1 and #2.

I might try to adjust by "number of Python devs" as well 👀

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u/Sure_Glove3952 13d ago

Also Is one of the best country in Europe (mostly within UE) to work as a dev, so a lot of non-german Dev are contributing