Patent applications - Patent applications among residents

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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 residents (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Australia	1,712	1,928	2,555	2,409	2,383	2,627	3,061	1,988	2,291	2,620	2,503	2,757	2,637	2,368	2,966
Japan	333,230	387,364	367,960	290,081	287,580	287,013	271,731	265,959	258,839	260,244	260,292	253,630	245,372	227,348	222,452
Korea, Rep.	9,082	72,831	122,188	131,805	138,034	148,136	159,978	164,073	167,275	163,424	159,084	162,561	171,603	180,477	186,245
Malaysia	92	206	522	1,231	1,076	1,114	1,199	1,353	1,272	1,109	1,166	1,116	1,071	989	883
New Zealand	802	1,463	1,893	1,585	1,501	1,425	1,614	1,636	1,184	1,075	1,014	1,017	324	348	330
Philippines	147	154	210	170	186	162	220	334	375	327	323	529	501	476	490
Singapore		516	569	895	1,056	1,081	1,143	1,303	1,469	1,601	1,609	1,575	1,727	1,778	2,024
India	1,147	2,206	4,721	8,853	8,841	9,553	10,669	12,040	12,579	13,199	14,961	16,289	19,454	23,141	26,267
Nepal					8	4	18	10	11	11	20
Pakistan	23	46	143	114	92	96	151	146	209	204	193	306	313	338	426
Sri Lanka	23	71	149	225	194		328		218	280	277	343	356	353	266
Cambodia							1	2		3		1
Lao PDR			3				1	1	1		3	1
Bangladesh	32	70	50	66	37	67	60	44	41	77	61	69	68	40	74
Thailand	73	561	891	1,214	927	1,020	1,572	1,006	1,029	1,098	979	904	865	863	867
Indonesia		157	235	508	533		663	702	1,058	1,101	2,271	1,407	3,093	1,309	1,397
Samoa								1	1			1	2		1
China	5,832	25,346	93,485	293,066	415,829	535,313	704,936	801,135	968,252	1,204,981	1,245,709	1,393,815	1,243,568	1,344,817	1,426,644
Hong Kong SAR, China	21	51	156	133	181	171	226	192	239	233	324	314	346	423	401
Mongolia			100	110			133	139	109	112	124	82	84	66	109
Vietnam	58	34	180	306	300	382	443	487	582	560	592	646	720	1,021	1,066
Georgia		232	225	183	138	139	114	110	99	96	75	103	85	81	90
Kazakhstan		1,399	1,523	1,691	1,415		1,824	1,742	1,271	993	1,055	789		803
Armenia		119	206	136	121	137	125	121	113	125	107	101	112	63	40
Azerbaijan			281	254	193	144	156	168	184	144	204	155	147	90	119
Kyrgyz Republic		80		134	124	110	111	132	122	84	137		92	63	83
Tajikistan		45	30	7	4	3	2						1
Uzbekistan		755	264	370	282	257	299	345	288	353	357	470	374	356	413
Papua New Guinea									1
Brunei Darussalam						20	20	26		16	8	26	8	5	2
Bhutan						3	3		1	4		1	1

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