Game developer population forecast
How many game developers are there?
About this Report
This report provides data and insights into trends that allow you to estimate the addressable market for game software development technologies, languages, and target groups. In the report, we estimate the number of game developers globally, how many are professionals, what types of organisations they work for, and where they are located. We additionally investigate the size of the addressable market for specific game platforms, programming languages, and technologies, and segment by experience level and company size.
Methodology
To count developers, we use an independent, bottom-up methodology. The data we use to arrive at the estimates in this report comes from:
1. Reliably measured numbers of developers or direct indicators of their activity: Github accounts and repositories, Stack Overflow accounts, and employment statistics from the USA and the European Union.
2. Our proprietary developer survey data on developers from around the world. For this report, we use data from 20,000+ game developers across six consecutive surveys.
Key Questions Answered
How many game developers are there?
How many professional game developers are there across the globe and where are they working?
What technologies and programming languages are being used by game developers?
How is the level of experience in the game developer community changing?
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