Patent applications - Patent applications among nonresidents - Ranking

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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
Austria	670	340	235	249	276	294	244	271	236	237	232	168	208	173	175
Belgium	613	243	105	140	127	127	161	137	148	119	216	218	257	288	415
Cyprus	43		44	4	8	8	1		1	1	4		1	1	2
Estonia		791	15	13	15	5	17	6	6	1	4	6	1	2	1
Finland	4,410	324	229	102	124	129	141	126	127	108	139	100	75	97	105
France	4,260	3,483	2,948	1,832	2,099	2,092	2,196	2,033	1,994	2,012	1,832	1,919	1,766	1,542	1,373
Germany	8,605	10,406	11,855	12,198	12,458	14,720	15,814	17,811	19,509	19,419	19,927	21,281	20,802	19,845	18,747
Greece	466	34	20	16	19	28	19	19	23	40	91	149	238	363	532
Ireland	4,001									70	75	32	35	54	42
Italy		1,396		846	927	871	905	781		973	1,031	900	898	947	797
Latvia		81	57	7	10	12	8	4	1	18	7	24	5	1	4
Lithuania		61	47	6	15	15	20	42	18	58	46	24	33	18	9
Luxembourg	165	91	64	21	43	52	56	90	119	301	512	243	359	679	1,441
Netherlands	764	529	633	240	310	338	449	288	287	314	365	394	449	825	1,390
Portugal	3,541	65	47	46	75	26	22	18	20	27	36	29	104	263	42
Slovak Republic		1,804	95	48	33	35	26	23	28	15	23	14	28	15	13
Slovenia		124	29	11	11							23		12	17
Spain	1,079	484	313	213	196	209	218	225	221	177	176	149	159	124	126
Malta	17	93		7	6	6	4	8	2	1	7	15	7	5	5