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Public business listings mapped to SphereScout’s software company category. Adjacent SaaS, IT consulting, and software publishing businesses are included only when mapped to that category.
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Software company statistics by country
A cross-country view of public business listings classified as software companies in SphereScout’s data. It does not count every SaaS, IT services, or software publishing firm in an official register.
Country snapshots computed: Aug 23, 2026–Aug 23, 2026Analyzed and reviewed by: Raphael Canyasse, Founder & CEO of SphereScout
45countries covered
470.33KSoftware companies listed
283.91Kcountry-level unique emails
49.3%median email coverage
What stands out
Software companies listed
The three countries with the most software companies listed are United States (83,145), Germany (48,688), and Brazil (47,130).
Email coverage
The strongest email-availability rates are in Norway (59.3%), Portugal (58.9%), and Croatia (58.2%).
Software company statistics by country
Markets are initially ranked by listings. Select any column heading to sort. Coverage is the share of listed companies with that contact method; unique emails are deduplicated inside each country only.
| United StatesUS | 83,145 | 41,051 | 60,785 | 49.4% | 67,844 | 81.6% | 87.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| GermanyDE | 48,688 | 1,770 | 3,053 | 3.6% | 41,553 | 85.3% | 82.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| BrazilBR | 47,130 | 17,601 | 22,141 | 37.3% | 33,833 | 71.8% | 90.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| United KingdomGB | 32,220 | 14,877 | 20,489 | 46.2% | 25,387 | 78.8% | 81.6% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| TürkiyeTR | 25,756 | 11,073 | 12,741 | 43.0% | 18,218 | 70.7% | 85.3% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| CanadaCA | 24,815 | 10,807 | 14,324 | 43.6% | 19,409 | 78.2% | 81.6% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| JapanJP | 20,258 | 4,805 | 5,720 | 23.7% | 15,870 | 78.3% | 86.1% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| AustraliaAU | 20,208 | 9,211 | 12,946 | 45.6% | 15,794 | 78.2% | 79.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| ItalyIT | 20,044 | 11,063 | 16,118 | 55.2% | 16,307 | 81.4% | 87.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| NetherlandsNL | 19,078 | 8,207 | 12,443 | 43.0% | 15,657 | 82.1% | 81.4% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| FranceFR | 17,919 | 9,151 | 13,480 | 51.1% | 15,253 | 85.1% | 83.9% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| SpainES | 14,096 | 6,216 | 8,675 | 44.1% | 10,909 | 77.4% | 84.6% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| PolandPL | 9,259 | 4,811 | 7,429 | 52.0% | 7,161 | 77.3% | 81.0% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| SwitzerlandCH | 9,069 | 4,726 | 7,865 | 52.1% | 7,729 | 85.2% | 81.9% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| BelgiumBE | 5,606 | 3,222 | 4,952 | 57.5% | 4,638 | 82.7% | 80.7% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| AustriaAT | 5,582 | 3,140 | 4,968 | 56.3% | 4,878 | 87.4% | 84.9% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| United Arab EmiratesAE | 5,335 | 2,718 | 3,846 | 50.9% | 4,208 | 78.9% | 90.0% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| RomaniaRO | 4,838 | 2,397 | 3,375 | 49.5% | 3,704 | 76.6% | 85.6% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| SwedenSE | 4,530 | 2,564 | 5,136 | 56.6% | 3,862 | 85.3% | 76.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| DenmarkDK | 4,158 | 2,172 | 4,329 | 52.2% | 3,453 | 83.0% | 86.2% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| ArgentinaAR | 4,073 | 1,719 | 2,429 | 42.2% | 3,274 | 80.4% | 86.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| ThailandTH | 3,819 | 1,409 | 1,957 | 36.9% | 2,467 | 64.6% | 89.1% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| FinlandFI | 3,745 | 2,170 | 4,831 | 57.9% | 3,199 | 85.4% | 80.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| IsraelIL | 3,424 | 1,603 | 2,377 | 46.8% | 2,737 | 79.9% | 81.3% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| PortugalPT | 2,979 | 1,756 | 3,142 | 58.9% | 2,503 | 84.0% | 81.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| Saudi ArabiaSA | 2,920 | 1,085 | 1,583 | 37.2% | 2,120 | 72.6% | 87.9% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| New ZealandNZ | 2,631 | 1,155 | 1,775 | 43.9% | 2,080 | 79.1% | 81.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| NorwayNO | 2,455 | 1,455 | 3,163 | 59.3% | 2,057 | 83.8% | 84.1% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| HungaryHU | 2,449 | 1,321 | 2,076 | 53.9% | 2,034 | 83.1% | 83.1% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| GreeceGR | 2,334 | 1,279 | 1,703 | 54.8% | 1,988 | 85.2% | 89.7% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| IrelandIE | 2,328 | 958 | 1,431 | 41.2% | 1,935 | 83.1% | 79.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| BulgariaBG | 1,993 | 1,001 | 1,625 | 50.2% | 1,600 | 80.3% | 84.0% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| SlovakiaSK | 1,959 | 1,107 | 1,781 | 56.5% | 1,561 | 79.7% | 87.4% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| SerbiaRS | 1,872 | 930 | 1,421 | 49.7% | 1,383 | 73.9% | 84.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| CzechiaCZ | 1,770 | 838 | 1,497 | 47.3% | 1,480 | 83.6% | 79.4% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| CroatiaHR | 1,349 | 785 | 1,152 | 58.2% | 1,141 | 84.6% | 82.3% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| EstoniaEE | 1,264 | 623 | 1,086 | 49.3% | 975 | 77.1% | 77.4% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| LithuaniaLT | 1,086 | 530 | 949 | 48.8% | 893 | 82.2% | 84.4% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| SloveniaSI | 986 | 526 | 807 | 53.3% | 733 | 74.3% | 82.4% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| QatarQA | 692 | 301 | 443 | 43.5% | 484 | 69.9% | 89.7% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| LatviaLV | 635 | 367 | 635 | 57.8% | 509 | 80.2% | 83.6% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| OmanOM | 556 | 236 | 350 | 42.4% | 389 | 70.0% | 93.5% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| KuwaitKW | 442 | 194 | 290 | 43.9% | 330 | 74.7% | 89.6% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| BahrainBH | 435 | 164 | 283 | 37.7% | 292 | 67.1% | 89.2% | Aug 23, 2026 |
| LuxembourgLU | 400 | 171 | 304 | 42.8% | 314 | 78.5% | 89.8% | Aug 23, 2026 |
How this report is built
The report is generated from country-level profession snapshots computed from SphereScout’s database. Country rows are checked for freshness and metric consistency before publication.
Aggregate
Compute company, contact, and coverage metrics separately inside each country.
Validate
Reject invalid timestamps, negative counts, impossible company coverage, and inconsistent percentages.
Publish
Present comparable country figures with their original snapshot dates and documented definitions.
Metric definitions and limits
- Software companies listed
- Public business listings mapped to SphereScout’s software company category. Adjacent SaaS, IT consulting, and software publishing businesses are included only when mapped to that category.
- Companies with email
- Listed companies with at least one email address in the country snapshot.
- Companies with website
- Listed companies with a non-empty public website field at snapshot time. This indicates web presence within the report’s SphereScout dataset; it is not a national digitalization index.
- Unique emails
- Email values deduplicated within one country snapshot. The cross-country total is a sum of those country counts and is not globally deduplicated.
- Contact count
- SphereScout’s snapshot contact metric. It is not used as a synonym for companies, unique emails, or unique phone numbers.
- Coverage rate
- Companies with the contact method divided by total listed companies, rounded to one decimal place.
Scope
Coverage varies by country and reflects public sources indexed and categorized by SphereScout. Counts can change as sources are refreshed, duplicate records are resolved, businesses open or close, and taxonomy rules improve.