Number of patent applications among residents

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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
Australia	1,712	1,928	2,555	2,409	2,383	2,627	3,061	1,988	2,291	2,620	2,503	2,757	2,637	2,368	2,966
Brunei Darussalam						20	20	26		16	8	26	8	5	2
Cambodia							1	2		3		1
China	5,832	25,346	93,485	293,066	415,829	535,313	704,936	801,135	968,252	1,204,981	1,245,709	1,393,815	1,243,568	1,344,817	1,426,644
Hong Kong SAR, China	21	51	156	133	181	171	226	192	239	233	324	314	346	423	401
Indonesia		157	235	508	533		663	702	1,058	1,101	2,271	1,407	3,093	1,309	1,397
Japan	333,230	387,364	367,960	290,081	287,580	287,013	271,731	265,959	258,839	260,244	260,292	253,630	245,372	227,348	222,452
Korea, Rep.	9,082	72,831	122,188	131,805	138,034	148,136	159,978	164,073	167,275	163,424	159,084	162,561	171,603	180,477	186,245
Lao PDR			3				1	1	1		3	1
Macao SAR, China			3	4	4	5	6	2	3		1	1		3	2
Malaysia	92	206	522	1,231	1,076	1,114	1,199	1,353	1,272	1,109	1,166	1,116	1,071	989	883
Mongolia			100	110			133	139	109	112	124	82	84	66	109
New Zealand	802	1,463	1,893	1,585	1,501	1,425	1,614	1,636	1,184	1,075	1,014	1,017	324	348	330
Papua New Guinea									1
Philippines	147	154	210	170	186	162	220	334	375	327	323	529	501	476	490
Samoa								1	1			1	2		1
Singapore		516	569	895	1,056	1,081	1,143	1,303	1,469	1,601	1,609	1,575	1,727	1,778	2,024
Thailand	73	561	891	1,214	927	1,020	1,572	1,006	1,029	1,098	979	904	865	863	867
Vietnam	58	34	180	306	300	382	443	487	582	560	592	646	720	1,021	1,066
Albania					3			10	14	20	16	15	4		23
Armenia		119	206	136	121	137	125	121	113	125	107	101	112	63	40
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
Croatia		337	363	257	230	217	230	170	169	175	148	121	195	117	77
Cyprus			20	4		4	2	4	6	3	8	4	4	2	1
Czechia		555	586	868	783	867	984	910	880	792	794	678	765	673	541
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
Estonia		13	23	84	62	20	25	44	30	29	37	24	31	21	25
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
Georgia		232	225	183	138	139	114	110	99	96	75	103	85	81	90
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
Kazakhstan		1,399	1,523	1,691	1,415		1,824	1,742	1,271	993	1,055	789		803
Kyrgyz Republic		80		134	124	110	111	132	122	84	137		92	63	83
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
Luxembourg	41	85	24	79	85	109	113	128	128	143	156	152	117	129	112
North Macedonia		71	53	27	37	50	42							47	42
Moldova		240	377	139	97	93	67	67	64	91	73	92	85	85	64
Montenegro				23	20	37	23	13	23	10		3	16	5
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
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
Romania	2,752	1,003	916	1,382	1,424	1,022	993	952	975	1,005	1,098	1,100	881	817	772
Russian Federation		23,377	23,644	28,722	26,495	28,701	28,765	24,072	29,269	26,795	22,777	24,926	23,337	23,759	19,569
Slovak Republic		236	155	234	224	168	184	211	228	220	183	217	206	206	146
Slovenia		307	344	442	470							255		232	222
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
Tajikistan		45	30	7	4	3	2						1
Turkiye	138	277	928	3,180	3,885	4,434	4,392	4,766	5,352	6,230	8,175	7,156	7,871	7,920	8,234
Ukraine		5,620	3,538	2,556	2,649	2,491	2,856	2,457	2,271	2,233	2,283	2,107	2,097	1,361	1,302
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
Antigua and Barbuda												5
Argentina	955	1,062	1,054	552	688	735	643	509	546	884	393	425	442	930	406
Barbados							3	1						29	73
Bolivia								9		12	59			8	5
Brazil	2,389	3,179	4,054	4,228	4,695	4,798	4,959	4,659	4,641	5,200	5,480	4,980	5,464	5,280	4,666
Chile	169	241	361	328	339	336	340	452	443	386	425	406	438	372	402
Colombia		75	99	133	183	213	251	260	321	545	595	415	422	369	432
Costa Rica	15	28	17	8	13	9	18	15	17	9	19	8	16	12	15
Cuba			105		62	38	27	24		32	29	29	27	33	21
Dominican Republic		5	8	15	15	19	12	16	25	28	20	17	23	10	7
Ecuador		10	11	4			7	24	20	45	16	34	29	33	35
El Salvador	10								7	4	4	3	1	4	2
Guatemala	27	54	17	7	4	7	4	10	7	3	3	6	7	7	9
Guyana								1		1		2			40
Haiti					1	2		2
Honduras	6	4			2	8	6		4	10	4	8
Jamaica	4	11	10	14	20	25	22	33	7	19	11	26	14	10	16
Mexico	661	431	584	951	1,065	1,294	1,210	1,246	1,364	1,310	1,334	1,555	1,305	1,132	1,117
Nicaragua		14			2	4	3	1
Panama	15	7			21		9	13	14	68	33	135	34	22	35
Paraguay	16	11	24	18								34	4	14	10
Peru	49	40	27	39	39	54	73	83	67	72	100	89	137	125	94
St. Lucia										5	3	2
Trinidad and Tobago			1			2		4	3	3		4	1	1	2
Uruguay		44	24	23	20	22		37	26		23
Venezuela, RB	262	56	121	70	61	65	74	55	47	35	96
Bahrain					1	3	3	6	8	6	8	11	4	7	3
Djibouti							1								3
Egypt, Arab Rep.	278	534	428	605	618	683	641	752	718	920	1,025	997	1,027	978	881
Israel	1,052	1,599	1,669	1,450	1,360	1,319	1,201	1,125	1,285	1,300	1,436	1,506	1,368	1,642	1,592
Jordan		71	49	45	40	48	35	40	41	22	26	24	21	36	25
Kuwait										13		1
Malta	2	23		12	9	11	13	5	9	3	5	2	5	6	5
Morocco	61	104	140	152	169	197	316	355	224	237	198	187	199	250	254
Oman									5	3	4	16	30	11	30
Qatar						3	9	5		16	19		39	81	47
Saudi Arabia	16	76	119	288	347		491	652	715	1,070	909	1,078	1,188	1,294	1,398
Tunisia	27	47	56	113	137	150	112	142	180	235	172	180
United Arab Emirates				25	33	23	21	29	35	57	63	57	55	39	69
Yemen, Rep.		7	20	20	7	36	43	29	5	16	15		60	60	20
Canada	2,549	4,187	5,183	4,550	4,754	4,709	4,567	4,198	4,277	4,078	4,053	4,349	4,238	4,452	4,710
United States	90,643	164,795	207,867	241,977	247,750	268,782	287,831	285,096	288,335	295,327	293,904	285,095	285,113	269,586	262,244
Bangladesh	32	70	50	66	37	67	60	44	41	77	61	69	68	40	74
India	1,147	2,206	4,721	8,853	8,841	9,553	10,669	12,040	12,579	13,199	14,961	16,289	19,454	23,141	26,267
Nepal					8	4	18	10	11	11	20
Pakistan	23	46	143	114	92	96	151	146	209	204	193	306	313	338	426
Sri Lanka	23	71	149	225	194		328		218	280	277	343	356	353	266
Angola												6	2
Botswana					1	5	8	4	3	1	3		2	2	3
Burkina Faso		2	1	2
Burundi											3	2		2
Cabo Verde										2	2	3		1	1
Cote d'Ivoire						26
Congo, Dem. Rep.												44	42	72
Ghana										14	15	13		12
Kenya			34	77	135	123	127	132	137	144	135	244	294	341	160
Lesotho												4	1
Madagascar		7	7	9	3	4	4	5	3	6	9	9		6	6
Malawi		3							6	3
Mauritius	1				1	4	2	3	1	2	1	16	4	6	6
Mozambique				15	8	14	13	14	24	15	24	34	23	26	30
Namibia	5								13	18	10	21	8
Nigeria	12				64	42	50			85	100	382	439	410
Rwanda						40		5	5	3	4	6			14
Seychelles														3
South Africa	1,093	895	1,003	821	656	608	638	802	889	704	728	657	567	542	1,804
Tanzania									1
Uganda			3				10	5	9	16	25	6	14	13	14
Zambia	7		5	5	3	7	13	14	20	15	12	11	2	17	13
Zimbabwe	44								9	8

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