Worldwide Blockchain and Web3 Developers Statistics 2020

Dappros blockchain developers analytical report first published in 2018 (Blockchain developers worldwide stats (absolute vs relative to population)) has gained popularity and is being cited by many publications and think tanks in blockchain / web3 industry.

Dappros Analytics team is committed to offering reliable information to our clients and the industry. In this latest analytical publication devoted to the builders of the Blockchain ecosystem, we provide the blockchain developers snapshot as of year 2020.

The methodology of the report is similar as before, with our team using open data from sources such as Linkedin in addition to automated scraping from jobs websites and manual refinement. These figures may be not 100% accurate as we often have to include statistical data based on what candidates specify in their profiles without being able to manually vet each of them. We do believe, however, that these figures could be used as a guidance and will server a valuable insight into the state of the industry.

The objective of this publication is to help blockchain and web3 ecosystem through valid information regarding the availability and distribution of talent and skillset.

The table below provides the absolute numbers of blockchain developers by country. The leaders, similarly to our 2018 report, are USA and India followed by UK, Germany, Canada, France, Netherlands, China, Australia and Spain.

No	Country	Blockchain	Ethereum	Hyperledger	Solidity	Population
1	United States	38,923	3441	1257	2861	331,002,651
2	India	26,603	3189	2526	2666	1,380,004,385
3	United Kingdom	10631	746	250	502	67,886,011
4	Germany	7260	615	253	496	83,783,942
5	Canada	5997	586	237	501	37,742,154
6	France	5157	445	190	457	65,273,511
7	Netherlands	4255	312	120	263	17,134,872
8	China	4193	171	115	120	1,439,323,776
9	Australia	3778	298	99	225	25,499,884
10	Spain	3760	431	209	418	46,754,778
11	Switzerland	3553	294	99	213	8,654,622
12	Italy	3529	301	113	280	60,461,826
13	Singapore	3338	221	119	193	5,850,342
14	Brazil	2907	260	147	213	212,559,417
15	Russia	2212	304	75	315	145,934,462
16	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	2198	128	124	85	9,890,402
17	Taiwan	1967	132	71	88	23,816,775
18	South Korea	1710	142	106	183	51,269,185
19	Ukraine	1676	235	70	281	43,733,762
20	Turkey	1610	110	68	151	84,339,067
21	Nigeria	1486	107	19	83	206,139,589
22	Poland	1419	200	68	204	37,846,611
23	Pakistan	1399	188	150	174	220,892,340
24	Israel	1271	125	20	123	8,655,535
25	South Africa	1234	81	30	85	59,308,690
26	Belgium	1189	95	57	81	11,589,623
27	Malaysia	1188	89	37	82	32,365,999
28	Ireland	1159	79	50	72	4,937,786
29	Vietnam	1128	127	63	110	97,338,579
30	Japan	1117	134	57	117	126,476,461
31	Sweden	980	85	29	69	10,099,265
32	Philippines	947	102	40	88	114,963,588
33	Iran	933	85	44	97	83,992,949
34	Austria	921	81	21	71	9,006,398
35	Argentina	909	130	27	149	45,195,774
36	Hong Kong	879	114	30.1	111	7,509,000
37	Mexico	855	67	34	77	128,932,753
38	Thailand	849	83	68	76	69,799,978
39	Indonesia	808	67	20	60	273,523,615
40	Denmark	710	62	19	47	5,792,202
41	Portugal	659	71	42	68	10,196,709
42	Saudi Arabia	645	42	25	29	34,813,871
43	New Zealand	616	55	29	41	4,822,233
44	Bangladesh	612	56	38	47	164,689,383
45	Romania	611	74	15	76	19,237,691
46	Colombia	602	44	25	62	50,882,891
47	Finland	600	45	15	36	5,540,720
48	Norway	557	48	19	46	5,421,241
49	Kenya	556	33	22	26	53,771,296
50	Greece	555	65	31	59	10,423,054
51	Belarus	528	74	32	77	9,449,323
52	Bulgaria	526	65	18	102	6,948,445
53	Egypt	484	41	41	48	102,334,404
54	Slovenia	476	61	13	65	2,078,938
55	Czech Republic	452	56	17	37	10,708,981
56	Sri Lanka	442	27	20	25	21,413,249
57	Serbia	439	76	23	57	8,737,371
58	Lithuania	394	42	11	39	2,722,289
59	Malta	369	25	2	21	441,543
60	Estonia	343	32	9	25	1,326,535
61	Hungary	336	41	15	36	9,660,351
62	Chile	335	42	19	28	19,116,201
63	Luxembourg	333	25	9	12	625,978
64	Tunisia	319	57	36	57	11,818,619
65	Cyprus	265	13	6	13	1,207,359
66	Peru	243	19	11	15	32,971,854
67	Slovakia	241	16	11	15	5,459,642
68	Croatia	233	29	13	29	4,105,267
69	Nepal	204	25	13	27	29,136,808
70	Venezuela	196	12	6	15	28,435,940
71	Morocco	187	22	11	30	36,910,560
72	Latvia	169	24	2	26	1,886,198
73	Ghana	152	8	4	7	31,072,940
74	Lebanon	142	17	5	14	6,825,445
75	Costa Rica	138	12	5	15	5,094,118
76	Jordan	132	11	10	10	10,203,134
77	Georgia	114	12	4	10	3,989,167
78	Uruguay	107	16	6	13	3,473,730
79	Bahrain	102	1	0	2	1,701,575
80	Ecuador	101	4	2	4	17,643,054
81	Kazakhstan	96	4	10	6	18,776,707
82	Mauritius	91	3	4	2	1,271,768
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	86	13	8	9	3,280,819
84	Armenia	83	10	1	13	2,963,243
85	Uganda	80	2	0	3	45,741,007
86	Algeria	76	2	3	5	2,083,374
87	Macedonia (FYROM)	76	11	5	10	43,851,044
88	Panama	75	8	3	2	4,314,767
89	Kuwait	74	2	3	2	2,881,053
90	Qatar	74	1	2	2	4,270,571
91	Cambodia	68	4	3	4	16,718,965
92	Liechtenstein	58	1	0	0	38,128
93	Zimbabwe	54	2	1	1	14,862,924
94	Oman	52	2	3	1	5,106,626
95	Moldova	51	6	1	6	4,033,963
96	Albania	49	4	0	4	2,877,797
97	Cote d’Ivoire	49	0	1	1	26,378,274
98	Dominican Republic	49	4	3	5	10,847,910
99	Guatemala	49	6	0	4	17,915,568
100	Cameroon	48	1	2	1	39,242
101	Monaco	48	4	1	1	26,545,863
102	Tanzania	47	2	0	0	59,734,218
103	Azerbaijan	40	3	1	1	341,243
104	Ethiopia	40	1	1	2	10,196,709
105	Iceland	40	2	0	4	114,963,588
106	Senegal	39	4	2	4	16,743,927
107	Bolivia	35	2	2	2	11,673,021
108	Kosovo	32	1	1	0	1,932,774
109	Mongolia	32	4	2	2	3,278,290
110	Myanmar	26	5	5	2	54,409,800
111	Rwanda	26	1	0	0	12,952,218
112	Uzbekistan	26	1	1	2	33,469,203
113	Trinidad and Tobago	24	0	0	0	1,399,488
114	Barbados	22	0	0	1	287,375
115	El Salvador	22	0	0	0	6,486,205
116	Honduras	22	1	1	6	9,904,607
117	Palestine	22	1	1	0	5,101,414
118	Montenegro	21	0	0	0	628,066
119	Bahamas	20	0	0	0	393,244
120	Paraguay	20	0	0	0	7,132,538
121	Andorra	19	0	1	0	77,265
122	Botswana	19	1	0	1	2,351,627
123	Cuba	18	1	1	0	11,326,616
124	Laos	18	3	0	0	7,275,560
125	Jamaica	17	0	0	1	2,961,167
126	Mozambique	16	0	0	0	31,255,435
127	Sudan	16	1	0	1	43,849,260
128	Zambia	16	0	0	0	18,383,955
129	Angola	15	0	0	0	32,866,272
130	Afghanistan	14	0	0	1	896,445
131	Fiji	14	0	0	0	38,928,346
132	Iraq	14	0	0	1	40,222,493
133	Kyrgyzstan	14	4	0	4	6,524,195
134	Papua New Guinea	13	0	0	0	8,947,024
135	Namibia	11	1	1	0	2,540,905
136	Syria	11	4	0	0	17,500,658
137	Libya	10	0	0	0	6,871,292
138	Malawi	10	0	0	0	19,129,952
139	Brunei	9	0	0	1	437,479
140	Belize	7	2	0	0	397,628
141	Burkina Faso	7	0	0	0	20,903,273
142	Haiti	7	0	0	0	11,402,528
143	Lesotho	7	0	0	0	2,142,249
144	Madagascar	7	2	0	0	27,691,018
145	Yemen	7	0	0	0	29,825,964
146	Antigua and Barbuda	6	0	0	0	97,929
147	Gabon	6	1	0	0	98,347
148	Nicaragua	6	0	0	0	2,225,734
149	Seychelles	6	1	0	0	6,624,554
150	Saint Kitts and Nevis	5	0	0	0	53,199
151	Somalia	5	0	0	0	15,893,222
152	Benin	4	2	0	0	183,627
153	Maldives	4	0	0	0	540,544
154	Mauritania	4	0	0	0	307,145
155	Saint Lucia	4	1	0	0	12,123,200
156	Timor-Leste	4	0	0	0	4,649,658
157	Vanuatu	4	0	0	0	1,318,445
158	Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	3	0	0	0	586,632
159	Mali	3	0	0	0	1,160,164
160	Sierra Leone	3	0	0	0	20,250,833
161	Suriname	3	0	0	0	7,976,983
162	Togo	3	0	0	1	8,278,724
163	Bhutan	2	0	0	0	71,986
164	Cape Verde	2	0	0	0	119,449
165	Chad	2	0	0	0	110,940
166	Dominica	2	0	0	0	771,608
167	Gambia	2	0	0	0	555,987
168	Kiribati	2	0	0	0	16,425,864
169	Niger	2	0	0	0	2,416,668
170	S. Sudan	2	0	0	0	24,206,644
171	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2	0	0	0	11,193,725
172	Tajikistan	2	0	0	0	9,537,645
173	Burundi	1	0	0	0	115,023
174	Djibouti	1	0	0	0	18,094
175	Equatorial Guinea	1	0	0	0	33,931
176	Eritrea	1	0	0	0	105,695
177	Liberia	1	0	0	0	801
178	Micronesia	1	0	0	0	11,890,784
179	North Korea	1	0	0	1	988,000
180	Palau	1	0	0	0	1,402,985
181	San Marino	1	1	0	0	3,546,421
182	Tonga	1	0	0	0	5,057,681
183	Vatican City (Holy See)	1	0	0	0	25,778,816
184	Central African Republic (CAR)	0	0	0	0	4,829,767
185	Comoros	0	0	0	0	869,601
186	Dem. Rep. Congo	0	0	0	0	89,561,403
187	Grenada	0	0	0	0	112,523
188	Guinea	0	0	0	0	13,132,795
189	Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0	0	1,968,001
190	Guyana	0	0	0	0	786,552
191	Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0	59,190
192	Nauru	0	0	0	0	10,824
193	Samoa	0	0	0	0	198,414
194	Sao Tome and Principe	0	0	0	0	219,159
195	Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0	686,884
196	Turkmenistan	0	0	0	0	6,031,200
197	Tuvalu	0	0	0	0	11,792

Please find a heatmap visualization for the above data below:

After obtaining the absolute numbers per country, we have proceeded to investigate the relative numbers, particularly the ratio of blockchain developers to a country’s population. Similarly to our 2018 report, this has offered interesting yet not very surprising results, showing which countries seem to attract most of the blockchain / web3 talent:

Table below provides understanding of how each country is saturated by blockchain developers in proportion to its overall population size. As you can see, the leader is Malta followed by Liechtenstein, Singapore, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, Estonia, Netherlands, Andorra and Ireland. Slovenia, UAE and Cyprus follow closely. All or most of these countries are known for their efforts in taxation, legislation and R&D support of innovative technologies and crypto assets.

No	Country	Population	Blockchain developers, est. per 100K population
1	Malta	441,543	84
2	Liechtenstein	38,128	58
3	Singapore	5,850,342	57
4	Luxembourg	625,978	53
5	Monaco	39,242	48
6	Switzerland	8,654,622	41
7	Estonia	1,326,535	26
8	Netherlands	17,134,872	25
9	Andorra	77,265	25
10	Ireland	4,937,786	23
11	Slovenia	2,078,938	23
12	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	9,890,402	22
13	Cyprus	1,207,359	22
14	United Kingdom	67,886,011	16
15	Canada	37,742,154	16
16	Australia	25,499,884	15
17	Israel	8,655,535	15
18	Lithuania	2,722,289	14
19	New Zealand	4,822,233	13
20	United States	331,002,651	12
21	Hong Kong	7,509,000	12
22	Denmark	5,792,202	12
23	Iceland	341,243	12
24	Finland	5,540,720	11
25	Belgium	11,589,623	10
26	Sweden	10,099,265	10
27	Austria	9,006,398	10
28	Norway	5,421,241	10
29	Germany	83,783,942	9
30	Latvia	1,886,198	9
31	France	65,273,511	8
32	Spain	46,754,778	8
33	Taiwan	23,816,775	8
34	Bulgaria	6,948,445	8
35	Barbados	287,375	8
36	Mauritius	1,271,768	7
37	Italy	60,461,826	6
38	Portugal	10,196,709	6
39	Belarus	9,449,323	6
40	Croatia	4,105,267	6
41	Bahrain	1,701,575	6
42	Antigua and Barbuda	97,929	6
43	Seychelles	98,347	6
44	Greece	10,423,054	5
45	Serbia	8,737,371	5
46	Bahamas	393,244	5
47	Saint Kitts and Nevis	53,199	5
48	Ukraine	43,733,762	4
49	Poland	37,846,611	4
50	Malaysia	32,365,999	4
51	Czech Republic	10,708,981	4
52	Slovakia	5,459,642	4
53	Macedonia (FYROM)	2,083,374	4
54	South Korea	51,269,185	3
55	Romania	19,237,691	3
56	Hungary	9,660,351	3
57	Tunisia	11,818,619	3
58	Costa Rica	5,094,118	3
59	Georgia	3,989,167	3
60	Uruguay	3,473,730	3
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,280,819	3
62	Armenia	2,963,243	3
63	Qatar	2,881,053	3
64	Montenegro	628,066	3
65	India	1,380,004,385	2
66	Russia	145,934,462	2
67	Turkey	84,339,067	2
68	South Africa	59,308,690	2
69	Argentina	45,195,774	2
70	Saudi Arabia	34,813,871	2
71	Sri Lanka	21,413,249	2
72	Chile	19,116,201	2
73	Lebanon	6,825,445	2
74	Panama	4,314,767	2
75	Kuwait	4,270,571	2
76	Albania	2,877,797	2
77	Kosovo	1,932,774	2
78	Trinidad and Tobago	1,399,488	2
79	Fiji	896,445	2
80	Brunei	437,479	2
81	Belize	397,628	2
82	Saint Lucia	183,627	2
83	Dominica	71,986	2
84	Kiribati	119,449	2
85	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,940	2
86	Brazil	212,559,417	1
87	Nigeria	206,139,589	1
88	Pakistan	220,892,340	1
89	Vietnam	97,338,579	1
90	Japan	126,476,461	1
91	Philippines	114,963,588	1
92	Iran	83,992,949	1
93	Mexico	128,932,753	1
94	Thailand	69,799,978	1
95	Colombia	50,882,891	1
96	Kenya	53,771,296	1
97	Peru	32,971,854	1
98	Nepal	29,136,808	1
99	Venezuela	28,435,940	1
100	Morocco	36,910,560	1
101	Jordan	10,203,134	1
102	Ecuador	17,643,054	1
103	Kazakhstan	18,776,707	1
104	Oman	5,106,626	1
105	Moldova	4,033,963	1
106	Mongolia	3,278,290	1
107	Botswana	2,351,627	1
108	Jamaica	2,961,167	1
109	Maldives	540,544	1
110	Vanuatu	307,145	1
111	Suriname	586,632	1
112	Micronesia	115,023	1
113	Palau	18,094	1
114	San Marino	33,931	1
115	Tonga	105,695	1
116	Vatican City (Holy See)	801	1
117	China	1,439,323,776	0
118	Indonesia	273,523,615	0
119	Bangladesh	164,689,383	0
120	Egypt	102,334,404	0
121	Ghana	31,072,940	0
122	Uganda	45,741,007	0
123	Algeria	43,851,044	0
124	Cambodia	16,718,965	0
125	Zimbabwe	14,862,924	0
126	Cote d’Ivoire	26,378,274	0
127	Dominican Republic	10,847,910	0
128	Guatemala	17,915,568	0
129	Cameroon	26,545,863	0
130	Tanzania	59,734,218	0
131	Azerbaijan	10,196,709	0
132	Ethiopia	114,963,588	0
133	Senegal	16,743,927	0
134	Bolivia	11,673,021	0
135	Myanmar	54,409,800	0
136	Rwanda	12,952,218	0
137	Uzbekistan	33,469,203	0
138	El Salvador	6,486,205	0
139	Honduras	9,904,607	0
140	Palestine	5,101,414	0
141	Paraguay	7,132,538	0
142	Cuba	11,326,616	0
143	Laos	7,275,560	0
144	Mozambique	31,255,435	0
145	Sudan	43,849,260	0
146	Zambia	18,383,955	0
147	Angola	32,866,272	0
148	Afghanistan	38,928,346	0
149	Iraq	40,222,493	0
150	Kyrgyzstan	6,524,195	0
151	Papua New Guinea	8,947,024	0
152	Namibia	2,540,905	0
153	Syria	17,500,658	0
154	Libya	6,871,292	0
155	Malawi	19,129,952	0
156	Burkina Faso	20,903,273	0
157	Haiti	11,402,528	0
158	Lesotho	2,142,249	0
159	Madagascar	27,691,018	0
160	Yemen	29,825,964	0
161	Gabon	2,225,734	0
162	Nicaragua	6,624,554	0
163	Somalia	15,893,222	0
164	Benin	12,123,200	0
165	Mauritania	4,649,658	0
166	Timor-Leste	1,318,445	0
167	Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	1,160,164	0
168	Mali	20,250,833	0
169	Sierra Leone	7,976,983	0
170	Togo	8,278,724	0
171	Bhutan	771,608	0
172	Cape Verde	555,987	0
173	Chad	16,425,864	0
174	Gambia	2,416,668	0
175	Niger	24,206,644	0
176	S. Sudan	11,193,725	0
177	Tajikistan	9,537,645	0
178	Burundi	11,890,784	0
179	Djibouti	988,000	0
180	Equatorial Guinea	1,402,985	0
181	Eritrea	3,546,421	0
182	Liberia	5,057,681	0
183	North Korea	25,778,816	0
184	Central African Republic (CAR)	4,829,767	0
185	Comoros	869,601	0
186	Dem. Rep. Congo	89,561,403	0
187	Grenada	112,523	0
188	Guinea	13,132,795	0
189	Guinea-Bissau	1,968,001	0
190	Guyana	786,552	0
191	Marshall Islands	59,190	0
192	Nauru	10,824	0
193	Samoa	198,414	0
194	Sao Tome and Principe	219,159	0
195	Solomon Islands	686,884	0
196	Turkmenistan	6,031,200	0
197	Tuvalu	11,792	0

Our visualization of the above data (below) shows clearly it is a limited ‘club’ of countries where blockchain developers and entrepreneurs seem to strive the most.

Conclusion

The blockchain industry and web3 trends continue to develop, supported by thousands of developers working in this space. The distribution of talent is uneven, with a limited club of countries such as Malta, Singapore and Switzerland boasting the highest relative numbers of individuals working in this space. At the same time, the usual suspects of United States and India still lead the charts in terms of absolute numbers of blockchain developers in 2020.

Dappros Analytics team will continue to provide the analysis in the space of blockchain developers – stay tuned for updates!