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
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2
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Kuwait
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1
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Armenia
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1
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Lithuania
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1
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Australia
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4
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Luxembourg
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2
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Austria
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8
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Malaysia
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1
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Bangladesh
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1
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Mexico
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5
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Belarus
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6
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Moldavia
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2
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Belgium
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2
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Morocco
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1
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Brazil
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15
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Netherlands
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10
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Bulgaria
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2
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New Zealand
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2
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Cameroon
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12
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Nigeria
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1
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Canada
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23
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Norway
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3
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Chile
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1
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Pakistan
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2
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China
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49
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Paraguay
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1
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Colombia
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2
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Peru
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2
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Croatia
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4
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Philippines
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2
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Czech Republic
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3
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Poland
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33
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Denmark
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1
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Portugal
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13
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Dominican Republic
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1
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Romania
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19
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Ecuador
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1
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Russian Federation
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38
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Egypt
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7
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Singapore
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11
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Estonia
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1
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Slovak Republic
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6
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Finland
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5
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South Korea
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5
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France
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18
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Spain
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30
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Germany
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50
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Sri Lanka
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58
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Greece
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9
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Sweden
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3
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Guatemala
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1
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Switzerland
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5
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Honduras
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1
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Taiwan
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2
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Hong Kong
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4
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Tunisia
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2
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Hungary
|
23
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Turkey
|
8
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India
|
335
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Uganda
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1
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Indonesia
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1
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Ukraine
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8
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Ireland
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3
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United Arab Emirates
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3
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Italy
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19
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United Kingdom
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13
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Jamaica
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1
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United States
|
127
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Japan
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6
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Uruguay
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1
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Kazakhstan
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1
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Vietnam
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2
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Kenya
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4
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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
