README.md

metadata

license: agpl-3.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - government
  - open-source
  - github
  - public-sector
pretty_name: Government GitHub Repositories
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

Government GitHub Repositories

A comprehensive, regularly updated dataset of public GitHub repositories belonging to government organizations worldwide.

Sourced from the government.github.com registry. Updated weekly via automated pipeline.

Current Stats

Metric	Value
Repositories	70,569
Government accounts	977
Countries	76
Taxonomy tags	11,128
Tagged repositories	67,959

Files

• data/government_repos_latest.csv — Latest repository metadata (CSV)
• data/government_repos_latest.parquet — Same data in Parquet format
• data/govtech.db — Full SQLite database with historical snapshots and tags

Schema

Each row represents a government GitHub repository with fields:

Field	Description
owner	GitHub org/user name
name	Repository name
html_url	Repository URL
country	Country of the government org
description	Repository description
language	Primary programming language
stars	Star count
forks	Fork count
license	SPDX license identifier
topics	GitHub topics (JSON array)
archived	Whether the repo is archived
created_at	Creation timestamp
updated_at	Last update timestamp

Source

Scraped using open-govtech-report.

Last updated: 2026-04-12 03:22 UTC