Number of patent applications among residents

Schengen Area Rankings Research and Development

Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office.

Number of patent applications among residents (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Austria	2,025	1,961	2,270	2,424	2,154	2,258	2,162	2,092	2,205	2,078	2,073	2,039	2,066	2,124	1,872
Belgium	643	577	517	620	636	755	715	889	949	1,054	1,001	892	876	862	799
Bulgaria	198	231	261	243	262	245	282	218	280	230	202	180	186	239	165
Cyprus			20	4		4	2	4	6	3	8	4	4	2	1
Denmark	1,218	1,730	1,658	1,626	1,574	1,406	1,341	1,377	1,462	1,552	1,490	1,262	1,351	1,261	1,090
Finland	2,059	2,579	1,830	1,731	1,650	1,698	1,596	1,419	1,289	1,260	1,390	1,387	1,321	1,588	1,557
France	12,378	13,870	14,327	14,748	14,655	14,540	14,690	14,500	14,306	14,206	14,415	14,303	14,103	12,771	13,386
Germany	30,724	51,736	48,367	47,047	46,986	46,620	47,353	48,154	47,384	48,480	47,785	46,617	46,632	42,260	39,822
Greece	241	306	462	728	722	628	698	651	550	606	498	430	356	400	394
Hungary	2,477	810	705	649	662	692	642	546	569	616	496	407	427	428	433
Iceland	17	51	47	57	50	37	33	51	40	35	36	56	47	44	34
Ireland	734									79	62	76	58	75	75
Italy		7,877		8,877	8,794	8,439	8,307	8,601		8,848	8,643	8,921	9,229	10,061	10,281
Luxembourg	41	85	24	79	85	109	113	128	128	143	156	152	117	129	112
Norway	899	1,311	1,143	1,117	1,122	1,009	1,101	1,106	1,153	1,227	1,152	1,082	957	880	946
Poland	4,106	2,404	2,028	3,203	3,879	4,410	4,237	3,941	4,676	4,261	3,924	4,207	3,887	4,010	3,377
Portugal	101	81	158	499	571	621	647	722	925	724	644	661	703	695	711
Netherlands	2,147	2,465	2,217	2,527	2,585	2,375	2,315	2,294	2,207	2,290	2,241	2,111	2,228	2,198	2,080
Romania	2,752	1,003	916	1,382	1,424	1,022	993	952	975	1,005	1,098	1,100	881	817	772
Spain	2,218	2,710	3,040	3,566	3,430	3,266	3,026	2,953	2,799	2,745	2,167	1,525	1,288	1,431	1,308
Sweden	3,108	4,224	2,522	2,196	2,004	2,288	2,332	1,984	2,038	2,032	1,992	1,838	1,802	1,764	1,771
Switzerland	2,987	2,083	1,643	1,622	1,597	1,480	1,525	1,480	1,477	1,462	1,337	1,283	1,369	1,384	1,288
United Kingdom	19,310	22,050	17,833	15,490	15,343	15,370	14,972	15,196	14,867	13,876	13,301	12,865	12,061	11,990	11,592
Malta	2	23		12	9	11	13	5	9	3	5	2	5	6	5
Croatia		337	363	257	230	217	230	170	169	175	148	121	195	117	77
Latvia		98	112	178	173	193	225	103	136	95	90	86	82	93	104
Lithuania		66	68	108	93	109	117	123	101	95	81	81	90	95	81
Slovenia		307	344	442	470							255		232	222
Czechia		555	586	868	783	867	984	910	880	792	794	678	765	673	541
Estonia		13	23	84	62	20	25	44	30	29	37	24	31	21	25
Slovak Republic		236	155	234	224	168	184	211	228	220	183	217	206	206	146

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