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pycountry

pycountry

A Python library to access ISO country, subdivision, language, currency and script definitions and their translations.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pycountry has 36.7M monthly downloads and 963 GitHub stars. Version 26.2.16 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2008.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Feb 2026.

It is used by 497 tracked packages, including facebook-business, schwifty and streamlink.

Downloads
Day
1.2M
Week
8.4M
Month
36.7M
Stars
963
Forks
141
Issues
18
Version
26.2.16

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
63
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
140 days ago
Monthly downloads
36,651,954
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
36,651,954
Stars
963
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,202,290
Month daily avg
1,221,732
Momentum
-1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
LGPL-2.1-only
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
141 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
3.5
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
28
Monthly downloads
36,651,954
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
60
 
Issue Burden
18.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 713.6K
macOS 6.5K
Windows 4.0K

Python Versions

3.12
30.5% 207.8K
3.11
29.8% 202.8K
3.10
22.4% 152.7K
3.13
8.6% 58.9K
3.14
8.6% 58.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
546.4K
2. IE IE
41.6K
3. NL NL
25.2K
4. DE DE
24.6K
5. SG SG
11.2K
6. GB GB
10.2K
7. IN IN
9.9K
8. KR KR
8.8K
9. BE BE
6.0K
10. CA CA
5.8K

Package Information

License
LGPL-2.1-only
First Release
May 20, 2008
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
26.2.16
Total Releases
64
Contributors
28
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Author
Christian Theune
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
country subdivision language currency iso 3166 639 4217 15924 3166-1 3166-2 3166-3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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