India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 157
dcblogs writes "There are about 18.2 million software developers worldwide, a number that is due to rise to 26.4 million by 2019, a 45% increase, says Evans Data Corp. in its latest Global Developer Population and Demographic Study. Today, the U.S. leads the world in software developers, with about 3.6 million. India has about 2.75 million. But by 2018, India will have 5.2 million developers, a nearly 90% increase, versus 4.5 million in the U.S., a 25% increase though that period, Evans Data projects. India's software development growth rate is attributed, in part, to its population size, 1.2 billion, and relative youth, with about half the population under 25 years of age. Rapid economic growth is fueling interest in development. India's services firms hire, in many cases, thousands of new employees each quarter. Consequently, IT and software work is seen as clear path to the middle class for many of the nation's young. For instance, in one quarter this year, Tata Consultancy Services added more than 17,000 employees, gross, bringing its total headcount to 263,600. In the same quarter of 2010, the company had about 150,000 workers."
Re:How was this data calculated? (Score:5, Funny)
They don't know either, the survey was outsourced to India.
Re:Quanity over Quality? ~nt~ (Score:5, Funny)
What are all these developers doing?
In my experience, they're ensuring that U.S. developers have poorly-designed software to fix.
Re:Quanity over Quality? ~nt~ (Score:5, Funny)
This is much incorrect! Indian designers are most making with excellent design and superiorest documentation! Their English is excellent handsome!