Trademark applications filed are applications to register a trademark with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) office. Direct resident trademark applications are those filed by domestic applicants directly at a given national IP office.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 30 | 34 | ||||||||||
| Cabo Verde | 94 | 89 | 133 | 91 | |||||||||
| Ghana | 57 | 883 | 900 | 928 | 833 | ||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 4 | 11 | 12 | 14 | |||||||||
| Nigeria | 1,392 | 20,560 | 17,182 | 19,332 | 15,557 | 11,221 | 11,341 | ||||||
| Sierra Leone | 150 | 122 | 350 | 113 | 300 | 480 | 200 | ||||||
| Gambia, The | 24 | 22 | 16 | 30 | 23 | 56 | 45 | 45 | 69 | 54 | 53 | 105 |