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GSoC 2015 stats part 1: All about the countries

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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As we gear up for the start of the 11th Google Summer of Code, we’ve been putting together some interesting numbers and stats for this year’s program.  Every year within minutes of the accepted students being announced, we are asked “how many students from my country were accepted?” and “how many students from my school were accepted?” We’ll be answering these kinds of questions with a few posts over the next few weeks, starting today.

Let’s start with our country-specific stats. Last year when we decided to list all of the countries with accepted students it was a huge hit, so why mess with success? The 73 countries represented by this year’s 1,051 GSoC accepted students are listed alphabetically below.

Argentina
2

Kuwait
1
Armenia
1

Lithuania
1
Australia
4

Luxembourg
2
Austria
8

Malaysia
1
Bangladesh
1

Mexico
5
Belarus
6

Moldavia
2
Belgium
2

Morocco
1
Brazil
15

Netherlands
10
Bulgaria
2

New Zealand
2
Cameroon
12

Nigeria
1
Canada
23

Norway
3
Chile
1

Pakistan
2
China
49

Paraguay
1
Colombia
2

Peru
2
Croatia
4

Philippines
2
Czech Republic
3

Poland
33
Denmark
1

Portugal
13
Dominican Republic
1

Romania
19
Ecuador
1

Russian Federation
38
Egypt
7

Singapore
11
Estonia
1

Slovak Republic
6
Finland
5

South Korea
5
France
18

Spain
30
Germany
50

Sri Lanka
58
Greece
9

Sweden
3
Guatemala
1

Switzerland
5
Honduras
1

Taiwan
2
Hong Kong
4

Tunisia
2
Hungary
23

Turkey
8
India
335

Uganda
1
Indonesia
1

Ukraine
8
Ireland
3

United Arab Emirates
3
Italy
19

United Kingdom
13
Jamaica
1

United States
127
Japan
6

Uruguay
1
Kazakhstan
1

Vietnam
2
Kenya
4




We have two countries being represented by students for the first time this year: Kuwait and United Arab Emirates - welcome to the GSoC family! With these two additions, we now have 103 countries where students have been accepted into the GSoC program since 2005.

As you may have seen in recent posts, there are many students and mentors throughout Africa and all around the world working very hard to spread the word about GSoC to their communities. We are happy to announce that Cameroon quadrupled their number of accepted students in 2015 to 12!

In our upcoming posts, we will delve deeper into the stats by looking at the universities with the most accepted students, degrees sought by students, gender numbers, and mentor stats. If you have other questions that you’d like to ask, please leave a comment on this post and we will try to answer your question in an upcoming post.

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
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