selection Total title What is the growth in the number of programming languages over time? subtitle There are still people alive who were born when there was no such thing as a programming language. This chart shows the rise in the number of languages like C, Python, R, Javascript, Lisp, Haskell and Rust. The data comes from http://pldb.info/languages.csv and is public domain and freely available. The chart was made with Our World In Data's Grapher which is open source software available at https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher type LineChart hasMapTab false hideControls true ySlugs Languages columns slug type name Year Year Year EntityName EntityName EntityName Languages Numeric Languages table Year Languages EntityName 1941 2 Total 1943 3 Total 1945 4 Total 1947 6 Total 1948 9 Total 1949 11 Total 1950 15 Total 1951 20 Total 1952 23 Total 1953 28 Total 1954 32 Total 1955 42 Total 1956 48 Total 1957 59 Total 1958 81 Total 1959 103 Total 1960 133 Total 1961 147 Total 1962 168 Total 1963 195 Total 1964 227 Total 1965 253 Total 1966 281 Total 1967 320 Total 1968 360 Total 1969 397 Total 1970 457 Total 1971 488 Total 1972 524 Total 1973 566 Total 1974 603 Total 1975 646 Total 1976 690 Total 1977 748 Total 1978 792 Total 1979 834 Total 1980 915 Total 1981 948 Total 1982 986 Total 1983 1054 Total 1984 1112 Total 1985 1201 Total 1986 1290 Total 1987 1356 Total 1988 1452 Total 1989 1543 Total 1990 1637 Total 1991 1723 Total 1992 1804 Total 1993 1890 Total 1994 1957 Total 1995 2032 Total 1996 2110 Total 1997 2211 Total 1998 2291 Total 1999 2364 Total 2000 2462 Total 2001 2555 Total 2002 2627 Total 2003 2696 Total 2004 2769 Total 2005 2828 Total 2006 2906 Total 2007 2984 Total 2008 3069 Total 2009 3147 Total 2010 3219 Total 2011 3315 Total 2012 3413 Total 2013 3508 Total 2014 3628 Total 2015 3747 Total 2016 3842 Total 2017 3957 Total 2018 4060 Total 2019 4173 Total 2020 4224 Total 2021 4251 Total 2022 4279 Total 1941 2 New 1943 1 New 1945 1 New 1947 2 New 1948 3 New 1949 2 New 1950 4 New 1951 5 New 1952 3 New 1953 5 New 1954 4 New 1955 10 New 1956 6 New 1957 11 New 1958 22 New 1959 22 New 1960 30 New 1961 14 New 1962 21 New 1963 27 New 1964 32 New 1965 26 New 1966 28 New 1967 39 New 1968 40 New 1969 37 New 1970 60 New 1971 31 New 1972 36 New 1973 42 New 1974 37 New 1975 43 New 1976 44 New 1977 58 New 1978 44 New 1979 42 New 1980 81 New 1981 33 New 1982 38 New 1983 68 New 1984 58 New 1985 89 New 1986 89 New 1987 66 New 1988 96 New 1989 91 New 1990 94 New 1991 86 New 1992 81 New 1993 86 New 1994 67 New 1995 75 New 1996 78 New 1997 101 New 1998 80 New 1999 73 New 2000 98 New 2001 93 New 2002 72 New 2003 69 New 2004 73 New 2005 59 New 2006 78 New 2007 78 New 2008 85 New 2009 78 New 2010 72 New 2011 96 New 2012 98 New 2013 95 New 2014 120 New 2015 119 New 2016 95 New 2017 115 New 2018 103 New 2019 113 New 2020 51 New 2021 27 New 2022 28 New