Trademark applications filed are applications to register a trademark with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) office. Direct nonresident trademark applications are those filed by applicants from abroad directly at a given national IP office.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Djibouti | 213 | ||||||||||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 6,363 | 6,206 | 7,781 | 7,586 | 7,275 | 7,489 | 7,870 | 7,824 | 8,002 | 7,302 | 8,316 | 8,226 | |
| Tunisia | 1,117 | 2,494 | 2,912 | 2,231 | 2,261 | 2,355 | 3,249 | 3,129 | 3,314 | 3,247 | |||
| Burundi | 87 | ||||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 289 | 313 | 363 | 600 | 960 | 2,800 | 2,931 | 983 | 1,177 | 1,087 | 485 | ||
| Kenya | 1,978 | 2,136 | 2,378 | 2,759 | 2,546 | 2,824 | 3,112 | 3,302 | |||||
| Madagascar | 408 | 419 | 1,032 | 1,029 | 1,140 | 1,096 | 1,146 | 1,181 | 1,284 | 1,204 | 1,465 | 1,294 | |
| Malawi | 284 | 618 | 335 | 1,834 | 798 | 755 | 649 | 666 | 836 | 668 | |||
| Mauritius | 302 | 1,058 | 997 | 971 | 1,000 | 1,058 | 1,218 | 1,057 | 1,008 | 1,066 | |||
| Rwanda | 69 | 124 | 187 | 408 | 1,122 | 1,092 | 1,036 | 1,338 | 1,404 | 1,325 | |||
| Seychelles | 195 | 511 | 479 | 690 | 540 | ||||||||
| Sudan | 1,809 | 1,541 | 2,016 | 1,884 | 1,772 | 2,178 | 2,224 | 1,917 | 1,918 | 1,965 | 1,967 | 1,778 | |
| Uganda | 131 | 668 | 645 | 1,354 | 1,590 | 1,769 | 1,753 | 115 | |||||
| Zambia | 311 | 1,525 | 2,558 | 1,546 | 1,915 | 2,358 | 2,117 | 1,876 | 1,946 | 2,076 | 1,943 | 1,957 | |
| Zimbabwe | 735 | 1,451 | 1,251 | 1,682 | 1,690 | 1,866 |