Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 139 | 161 | 167 | 199 | 185 | 171 | 237 | 219 | 322 | 257 | 326 | ||||
| Kuwait | 37 | 256 | |||||||||||||
| Oman | 341 | 366 | 387 | 404 | 476 | 519 | 511 | ||||||||
| Qatar | 58 | 323 | 477 | 548 | 574 | 799 | 604 | 722 | |||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 439 | 797 | 374 | 643 | 643 | 440 | 135 | 1,691 | 2,196 | 2,282 | 2,321 | 2,463 | 2,274 | 2,581 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,263 | 1,318 | 1,327 | 1,402 | 1,438 | 1,714 | 1,642 | 1,733 | 1,723 | 1,843 | 1,869 | 2,354 |