Release 2026-Q4· reporting Q3 2026

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The published figures as CSV, for everything or for the country and period you choose. Aggregates only: no developer-level record is published anywhere. Choose a place and period above to download only those rows. Each chart also saves as an image, with its source, from its share button.

Egypt and Ghana are comparators

Release 2026-Q4: Nigeria, Q3 2026

country_metrics.csvEvery figure for each country and for Tracked African markets: quarters, years and months, with intensity band, tenure and chain facets, changes, retention and progression.
ecosystem_metrics.csvEvery ecosystem in each country and in Tracked African markets: developers, the share of active developers contributing, and a market's share of the tracked markets' contributors.

Reading the files

display_value is the figure exactly as published, and is what to quote. value_numeric is the number behind it and must be read with qualifier: an observed_minimum is a floor, never a total; a suppressed figure has no number at all. A share carries the count it divides by in denominator. Every row carries its metric's definition and the source.

Country “xa” is Tracked African markets: Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, each developer counted once. Egypt and Ghana are never in it. Withheld periods are included as rows with period_publication set to withheld and no values, so a gap in a series is visible rather than silently missing. Intensity bands (occasional, sustained, heavy) partition the all-intensity total. Ecosystem rows overlap and must not be summed.

Licence and attribution

The figures are published under CC BY 4.0. When you reuse them, cite the release (2026-Q4) and credit this site and the data sources listed at the foot of every page.

Release 2026-Q4· source snapshot 20261005T130551· data through 2026-09-27· Revision log

ecosystem_breakdowns.csvEach ecosystem by contribution intensity and tenure, with retention and growth, for the latest eight quarters.

city_metrics.csvActive developers per city. Cells below the disclosure floor are rolled into __other__.

hackathons.csvHackathon participants, projects and prize winners per country, per hackathon and per year, with the shares already active in open source. A separate measure from the developer counts.