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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 2,019 | 1,622 | 1,763 | 1,729 | |||||||||
| Botswana | 1,283 | 1,479 | 1,363 | 1,465 | 1,545 | 1,440 | 1,466 | 1,382 | 1,326 | ||||
| Lesotho | 1,121 | ||||||||||||
| 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 | |||
| Mozambique | 2,736 | 1,602 | 1,772 | 2,007 | 2,043 | 2,048 | 2,380 | 2,574 | 2,133 | 2,022 | 2,033 | 2,201 | |
| Namibia | 2,048 | 2,220 | 2,007 | 2,198 | 2,430 | 2,358 | 2,141 | 1,904 | 2,800 | ||||
| Seychelles | 195 | 511 | 479 | 690 | 540 | ||||||||
| South Africa | 3,345 | 12,169 | 10,850 | 12,509 | 13,962 | 14,105 | 15,199 | 14,943 | 15,326 | 15,112 | 15,337 | 15,820 | 15,788 |
| Tanzania | 620 | 310 | |||||||||||
| 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 |