Stats

Statistics tracking the remarkable growth of OpenStreetMap's database and community

Database statistics	Normally automatically updated every day. Performs analysis on the database that makes OpenStreetMap work – shows the number of ways, nodes, relations, etc. in the database. That page also shows the leaderboards for people uploading data. There is a historical dump of this full data going back to 2007 and some basic data going back to 2005.
Taginfo	Taginfo analyzes OSM tag usage. Has many different reports on tags and also on the number of objects in the database.
Server statistics	Showing the disk, memory, I/O, bandwidth stats of each of the OpenStreetMap servers
very basic wiki statistics	Showing basic statistics (for the job queue, see site info statistics). Please note: more extensive statistics distorted from 2007-10-12 due to Proxy-Cache running in front of webserver.
Feature requests	Put your request on the talk page

In summary

Current approximation of the number of users: more than ten million (based on https://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html)
10.5 million registered users (2024-03-31)
9.1 billion nodes (2024-03-31)
≈4 million map changes/day (2021-Q4)
1.75 million different user contributors (2021-Q4)

Database statistics - Active reports

Editor usage stats (since 2009) generated from changeset information since API 0.6 in 2009.
Editing frequency (2010) generated from changeset information since API 0.6 in 2009, and synthesized changesets since 0.5.

Database statistics - Graphical charts (since 2005)

These historical graphical charts below use the daily database data summary. The charts are updated periodically by Blackadder and a csv file of the raw daily data used is available from here

The current status of the database can be seen on Database statistics.

Users and GPX uploads

Contributors editing nodes or uploading GPX nodes

These two graphics are counting contributors by rolling month or by rolling week.

Accumulated users and GPX uploads

Registered users statistics reports

Accumulated registered users (log scale)

Accumulated registered users (linear scale)

Nodes, ways and relations

On the following two graphs the statistics count was changed on 2007-08-01. Previous to this date the count includes deleted objects, after this date the count only contains visible objects. This accounts for the drop in numbers at that time.

Accumulated nodes, ways and relations

Accumulated ways and relations

New nodes and ways added per day

Edited nodes per contributor per day

Contributor statistics reports

These statistics are generated from the changeset diff feed from planet.openstreetmap.org and show numbers on users that have actually made edits. Changesets were introduced in early 2009, for edits prior to that date changesets were generated retroactively. That and the phasing out of anonymous edits between 2007 and 2009 may cause some differences prior to 2009 in the numbers to other methods of counting.

The graphs show a strong impact of the introduction of the editing feature in the maps.me app, please have a look at updated statistics for 2018 diary post for more information.

Total accumulated contributors to the data

New contributors per month

Active contributors per month

"Active" implies the contributors in question have made an edit in the relevant time frame.

Active new and old contributors per year

New and old contributors are not discriminated in 2009 or before as it is not possible to track them prior to the introduction of changesets in 2009: most of them however were new contributors compared to the previous year where the total in 2009 was a lot larger than those registered and contributing since 2008 or before.

Active contributors per month relative to total number of accounts

Edits per month

Total edits of any kind (the sum of the number of changes in all changesets, as reported by num_changes value) per month.

Database statistics - Historical charts and reports

Changeset Statistics (2005-2013)

New contributors per week (2005-2011)

Contribution percentage by user (2009-2010)

Note this is historic data from 2009, a point in time when OSM contained less that 15% of what it contains at the beginning of 2014 and about 5% of what it contains today (Early 2020).

See also: https://apmon.dev.openstreetmap.org/TopChangeContributor.txt (last update was in year 2010: seems to be only history, too)

Tabular historical statistics (2005-2007)

Tile usage statistics

Usage of the prerendered map tiles – Talk page

Local statistics

Canada
- Ontario
  - Toronto
United States
- Indiana
  - Cincinnati metropolitan area
- Kentucky
  - Cincinnati metropolitan area
- Ohio
  - Cincinnati metropolitan area
Europe
- France

External sites with active statistics and reports

Some external organisations reviewing/comparing OSM data statistics:

[1] Map Metrics for OSM
Ohsome Dashboard generates accurate statistics about the historical development of OSM data for custom regions, tags and time ranges. OhsomeHeX shows heatmaps of selected OSM features (OhsomeHeX).
OSMStats – Shows statistics by Pascal Neis about OSM users and elements in the database.
- How did you contribute – Statistics about every individual mapper.
- Statistics about added OpenStreetMap Notes – Statistics about the Notes feature.
OSMQualityMetrics – A set of Python scripts you can use to roll your own statistics, works with full history files as well.
- Brave Mappers – A script that processes the output of aforementioned OSMQualityMetrics output into a visual historical overview of mapper activity for an area.
The most densely mapped locations in OSM – (image and link to a slippy map version).
Density Maps and Mapping Speed for a few selected countries
live.openstreetmap.fr – Pulse OSM Mapping (world)
OpenStreetMap servers - prometheus live statistics
Statistics about tagged roads length for each country with history, possibility to display info about specific road class. Last update of data in 2019.
OSM contribution statistics monthly updated interactive statistics about contributions to OpenStreetMap using the editing changesets.

External sites with archived statistics and reports

Walking Papers had some statistics on the usage archived version
Tutorial email on how to measure highway length per country (November 2011).
"Geo-Analytics on OpenStreetMap Road Data" from Beyonav – Old reports for 2009-2011.
Germany 2007-2011 – Pascal Neis paper analysed in detail.
Fossgis 2018 - Lügen mit Statistik, OpenStreetMap Edition(de)

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In summary

Database statistics - Active reports