Patent applications - Patent applications among nonresidents

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Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office.

Patent applications among nonresidents (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Australia	13,278	20,073	21,302	22,478	23,143	23,731	26,656	23,968	26,314	25,774	26,403	27,200	27,121	26,926	29,443
Cambodia				26	43	53	74	65	65	77	55	160	310	248
Japan	34,360	49,501	59,118	54,517	55,030	55,783	56,705	60,030	59,882	58,137	58,189	59,937	62,597	61,124	66,748
Korea, Rep.	16,738	29,179	38,733	38,296	40,890	40,779	44,611	46,219	46,419	45,406	45,691	47,431	47,372	46,282	51,753
Lao PDR			4	20	43	53	69	43	61	63	97	58
Malaysia	2,213	6,021	5,764	5,152	5,376	5,826	6,006	6,267	6,455	6,127	5,906	6,179	6,480	5,839	6,651
New Zealand	3,869	5,585	5,112	5,051	4,708	5,674	5,167	6,092	5,317	5,311	5,146	5,221	5,690	5,417	6,522
Philippines	1,822	3,482	2,762	3,223	3,010	2,832	3,065	3,255	3,359	3,092	3,072	3,771	3,879	3,517	3,903
Singapore		7,720	8,036	8,878	8,738	8,604	8,579	9,009	9,345	9,379	9,321	10,270	12,409	11,487	12,566
India	2,673	6,332	19,661	30,909	33,450	34,402	32,362	30,814	33,079	31,858	31,621	33,766	34,173	33,630	35,306
Pakistan	524	1,149	1,141	980	861	798	783	776	677	636	505	586	561	562	567
Sri Lanka	83	250	211	235	235		188		263	293	266	260	255	251	273
Nepal					15	13	12	36	71	26	43
Samoa								99	3				1	2
Bangladesh	76	248	294	276	269	287	243	249	299	267	241	299	345	362	373
Thailand	1,867	4,488	5,449	723	2,997	5,726	5,832	6,924	7,138	6,722	6,886	7,245	7,307	6,662	7,375
Indonesia		3,733	4,069	5,122	5,297		6,787	7,321	8,095	8,538	7,032	8,347	8,388	6,851	7,403
China	4,305	26,560	79,842	98,111	110,583	117,464	120,200	127,042	133,612	133,522	135,885	148,187	157,093	152,342	159,019
Hong Kong SAR, China	1,060	8,244	11,607	11,569	13,312	12,817	13,690	12,350	11,973	13,859	12,975	15,672	16,186	21,133	21,542
Mongolia			87	69			132	126	128	107	104	79	86	82	77
Vietnam	17	1,205	1,767	3,276	3,260	3,423	3,552	3,960	4,451	4,668	4,790	5,425	6,800	6,674	7,468
Georgia		186	250	179	260	233	219	187	172	178	157	157	112	134	164
Kazakhstan		116	103	273	317		378	271	232	231	173	193		97
Brunei Darussalam		21	26			11	15	91		73	99	95	133	115	137
Armenia		8	2	6	19	4	6	2	2	1	3	4	4	7	8
Azerbaijan			6	17	12					19	22	16	20	18	16
Kyrgyz Republic		4		6	5	1	3	7	4	5	9		1	1	4
Tajikistan		7	6	3	1	3	2		1				1	8
Uzbekistan		213	180	262	274	253	258	223	219	202	196	180	169	232	252
Papua New Guinea							79		46			33	63	53	29
Bhutan						1	4		7	1	3	9	17	6	7
Tonga										1	1			3	2
Tuvalu												7	10	10	11

Patent applications among nonresidents (number)

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