How big is the QGIS community in 2025
A few years have passed since taking a look at our beloved QGIS community so it is time to take another look back and see how the community has grown. The previous posts can be found here: 2021 version and 2023 version.
How many QGIS developers are there?
Open source softwares are dependent on the community to find and fix bugs and problems in the programs. The LTR version in QGIS is 3.40.12 and the latest release is 3.44.4. The release of new QGIS 4.0 is coming in February, exciting times ahead in the QGIS community!
There are quite a few more core contributors than before, as of November 2025 there are 579 contributors listed on QGIS GitHub pages! During the last month alone 24 different developers have pushed 475 commits to the master branch! The key players still are the same, most commits have been made by Nyall Dawson who has pushed over 200 commits in the last month. In the growing contributors list there are also our very own Juho and Ismo!
Juho has gotten on a roll and developed symbology, merge policies and comment toggling to name a few! We here at Gispo thank each and everyone who has committed their time and has been a part of developing our dear QGIS. <3
There are also donors and sustaining members that are contributing to QGIS. There are more than 100 sustaining members all around the world including companies and QGIS user groups and over 8000 donors supporting QGIS!
How many QGIS users are there?
There still isn’t a good way to determine how many people are using QGIS. Tracking downloads and installations isn’t possible due to the support of multiple operating systems and installation methods. And some (at least me) have multiple different QGIS versions downloaded on their computers. These always skew the real user count.
The best guess about the user count of QGIS is still calculating the number of requests to the QGIS News Feed in the start display. This way it is possible to transparently and openly gather information about QGIS users.
In the last 30 days (November 2025) QGIS has been opened 21,963,880 times! This is over double compared to our last overview in 2023. Yesterday alone, 12.11.2025, there were 972,302 opens of QGIS.
As one could presume the most used version is 3.40, the latest LTR version. Next in line there are 3.44 aka the latest release and 3.34 LTR version.
Over the years the use and the QGIS community has definitely been on the rise. Since the beginning of this year alone the number of monthly opens has grown significantly.
The QGIS dashboard is available here
Support, training & social media numbers
StackOverflow is still a great source of instructions and ideas from other users. There are currently over 1700 active questions with the QGIS and almost 500 questions are still unanswered. If you have free time on your hands and want to help a fellow QGIS user, head on there and help others!
There are 3.7k watchers for the tag in StackOverflow. New questions are asked more than once a day!
This might make QGIS sound rather problematic software but the reasoning might be that there are just different level users using the software. This can be seen from the questions asked, they vary from adding data to PyGIS and advanced algorithms. Also as an open source software there aren’t specified support pages for QGIS users so StackOverflow and other forums are a great way to get help. Also the QGIS community is very active and willing to research and answer questions!
People tend to start their professional journey with new software by taking a course where they learn how to do that. We at Gispo have given training to more than 1000 individuals in Finland and Sweden. There are different online courses dedicated to QGIS that have over 10 000 participants. Then there is the whole world of universities and educational institutions that teach QGIS on their GIS courses and thus account for thousands of new QGIS users every year.
But in this marvellous time of the internet, most venture to one place for information and new skills: YouTube.
There are hundreds of videos made by individuals and companies alike that give tips and tricks and whole lessons on QGIS. A video for beginners in 2025 has 430 000 views already. I think that is a quite good indicator: if you are not about to use QGIS you probably have no reason to watch the hour long tutorial and also it is highly unlikely that you end up watching it multiple times. There are multiple other older tutorial videos that have more than 1 million views.
Plus there are other communities in social media: QGIS Facebook page has 43 000 followers, user groups vary from 10 000 to 60 000 members and GIS community group has over 100 000 members. In r/QGIS subreddit there are 25 000 weekly visits and hundreds of open questions for the last few weeks alone.
QGIS community
There are caveats and uncertainties in trying to estimate how big is the QGIS community. This is only an estimate and based on best guesses of the writer.
There could be something to count to 500 000 active users on a weekly basis, maybe even more. These count for people in user groups, social media helpers and the basic users who use QGIS actively in their work (and why not in their free time).
There are definitely millions of users in total, perhaps on some level we might be getting closer to even 10 million users. But we have to keep in mind that not everyone uses the program daily or even monthly. But every little bit counts right?
Even in these past few years we think that QGIS has gotten so many more users. It is impossible to count all active users and developers and even harder to count how many use QGIS once in a blue moon. But seeing the numbers here we are happy that there are so many users and the community is happy to help everyone, despite how long they have used QGIS.
