Update: Added Sankey diagram to display award relationships between 2023 to 2024.

Another year, another Microsoft MVP award cycle. Happy to report that yours truly received his 11th MVP Award

As every year, this is also a moment to have a quick peek at the MVP population. The numbers below are taken from the public MVP portal on July 11th. Comparing them to July of recent years should give an idea of trends and what award categories (and thus products) seem to have focus.

A few notes:

• 3.187 public MVP profiles were processed.
• The award categories Enterprise Mobility and M365 Development have ceased to exist and are now expertise areas. Most MVPs who used to be in these categories have moved to the Security and Developer Technologies categories.
• More countries are now represented in the program compared to last year.

MVP Awardees per Category

The following chart and table display the awardees per award category from July 2019 to 2024, plus change percentages compared to previous years. Former Enterprise Mobility and M365 Developer awardees have mostly moved to Security and Developer Technologies.

Award Category	Jul2020	Jul2021	%	Jul2022	%	Jul2023	%	Jul2024	%
AI Platform	122	138	13%	128	-7%	105	-18%	269	156%
Business Applications	240	323	35%	351	9%	442	26%	474	7%
Cloud and Datacenter Management	209	219	5%	164	-25%	136	-17%	111	-18%
Data Platform	358	392	9%	364	-7%	335	-8%	307	-8%
Developer Technologies	697	770	10%	715	-7%	747	4%	761	2%
Enterprise Mobility	113	133	18%	149	12%	100	-33%	0	-100%
Internet of Things	0	0	0%	0	0%	43	0%	43	0%
M365	512	556	9%	492	-12%	541	10%	643	19%
M365 Development	64	69	8%	59	-14%	70	19%	0	-100%
Microsoft Azure	463	534	15%	546	2%	526	-4%	527	0%
Mixed Reality	0	0	0%	0	0%	45	0%	35	-22%
Security	0	0	0%	0	0%	171	0%	305	78%
Windows and Devices	43	42	-2%	45	7%	61	36%	102	67%
Windows Development	110	120	9%	92	-23%	37	-60%	30	-19%
Total	2931	3296	12%	3105	-6%	3359	8%	3607	7%
Count	2849	3223	13%	3023	-6%	3175	5%	3187	0%

Note: The difference between total awards and total MVPs is caused by MVPs that are awarded in more than one category.

MVP Awardees per Country

The following chart and table display the awardees per country, plus change percentages compared to July last year.

Country	No.(change)	Country	No.(change)	Country	No.(change)	Country	No.(change)
ALB	1 (0%)	SLV	2 (0%)	MKD	5 (0%)	SVK	4 (100%)
AGO	1 (100%)	EST	4 (300%)	MYS	7 (16%)	SVN	7 (16%)
ARG	17 (30%)	FIN	33 (6%)	MLT	1 (100%)	ZAF	11 (0%)
AUS	106 (-3%)	FRA	117 (-2%)	MUS	1 (100%)	ESP	100 (12%)
AUT	31 (-7%)	GEO	1 (100%)	MEX	18 (5%)	LKA	10 (11%)
AZE	4 (100%)	DEU	138 (6%)	MAR	4 (100%)	SWE	77 (1%)
BHR	1 (0%)	GHA	6 (-15%)	MMR	1 (-50%)	CHE	52 (4%)
BGD	3 (-25%)	GRC	11 (120%)	NPL	3 (-25%)	TWN	44 (-5%)
BEL	58 (-2%)	GTM	1 (0%)	NLD	174 (4%)	TZA	1 (100%)
BOL	5 (66%)	HND	1 (0%)	NZL	32 (-20%)	THA	16 (45%)
BIH	6 (-15%)	HKG	6 (0%)	NIC	3 (200%)	TUN	1 (0%)
BRA	124 (0%)	HUN	8 (-12%)	NGA	25 (38%)	TUR	20 (-5%)
BGR	7 (-30%)	ISL	4 (0%)	NOR	39 (-12%)	TGO	0 (-100%)
CMR	1 (0%)	IND	114 (40%)	PAK	9 (80%)	UKR	13 (44%)
CAN	113 (-7%)	IDN	7 (-13%)	PAN	3 (200%)	ARE	3 (50%)
CHL	4 (0%)	IRL	31 (-9%)	PRY	1 (0%)	GBR	272 (5%)
CHN	132 (0%)	ISR	12 (-15%)	PER	13 (0%)	USA	481 (1%)
COL	16 (14%)	ITA	68 (3%)	PHL	6 (-15%)	URY	2 (100%)
COD	4 (100%)	JPN	146 (-12%)	POL	65 (8%)	UZB	2 (0%)
CRI	2 (0%)	JOR	1 (100%)	PRT	22 (4%)	VEN	1 (0%)
CIV	1 (0%)	KAZ	0 (-100%)	PRI	0 (-100%)	VNM	5 (0%)
HRV	13 (-14%)	KEN	7 (133%)	REU	1 (100%)	UZB	2 (0%)
CZE	24 (-20%)	KOR	54 (-17%)	ROU	11 (-43%)	VEN	1 (0%)
DNK	47 (4%)	LVA	1 (-67%)	SAU	4 (-20%)	VNM	5 (0%)
DOM	3 (-50%)	LBN	1 (100%)	SEN	0 (-100%)	YEM	1 (100%)
ECU	4 (0%)	LTU	6 (200%)	SRB	7 (40%)
EGY	8 (100%)	LUX	1 (0%)	SGP	19 (35%)

MVP Awards from 2023 to 2024

The Sankey diagram below displays the number of awarded categories moving from 2023 to 2024 (click to zoom). New awardees are categorized as “New,” and those who are no longer present on the MVP portal (e.g., no longer MVP) are categorized as “Out.” Note that new awardees getting awarded in multiple categories are counted as new for each category; in other words, there are not 632 new MVPs awarded this cycle.

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