We share statistics from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) every year — now that 2016 is chugging along we’ve got some exciting numbers to share! 1,202 students from all over the globe are currently in the community bonding period, a time where participants learn more about the organization they will be contributing to before coding officially begins on May 23. This includes becoming familiar with the community practices and processes, setting up a development environment, or contributing small (or large) patches and bug fixes.

We’ll start our statistics reporting this year with the total number of students participating from each country:

Country	Accepted Students	Country	Accepted Students	Country	Accepted Students
Albania	1	Greece	10	Romania	31
Algeria	1	Guatemala	1	Russian Federation	52
Argentina	3	Hong Kong	2	Serbia	2
Armenia	3	Hungary	7	Singapore	7
Australia	6	India	454	Slovak Republic	3
Austria	19	Ireland	3	Slovenia	4
Belarus	5	Israel	2	South Africa	2
Belgium	5	Italy	23	South Korea	6
Bosnia-Herzegovina	1	Japan	12	Spain	33
Brazil	21	Kazakhstan	2	Sri Lanka	54
Bulgaria	2	Kenya	3	Sweden	5
Cambodia	1	Latvia	3	Switzerland	2
Cameroon	1	Lithuania	1	Taiwan	7
Canada	23	Luxembourg	1	Thailand	1
China	34	Macedonia	1	Turkey	12
Croatia	2	Mexico	2	Ukraine	13
Czech Republic	6	Netherlands	9	United Kingdom	18
Denmark	2	New Zealand	2	United States	118
Egypt	10	Pakistan	4	Uruguay	1
Estonia	1	Paraguay	1	Venezuela	1
Finland	3	Philippines	2	Vietnam	4
France	19	Poland	28
Germany	66	Portugal	7

We’d like to welcome a new country to the GSoC family. 2016 brings us one student from Albania!

In our upcoming statistics posts, we will delve deeper into the numbers by looking at  universities with the most accepted students, gender numbers, mentor countries and more. If you have additional statistics that you would like us to share, please leave a comment below and we will consider including them in an upcoming post.

By Mary Radomile, Open Source Programs