Patent applications - Patent applications among nonresidents

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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
Australia	13,278	20,073	21,302	22,478	23,143	23,731	26,656	23,968	26,314	25,774	26,403	27,200	27,121	26,926	29,443
Brunei Darussalam		21	26			11	15	91		73	99	95	133	115	137
Cambodia				26	43	53	74	65	65	77	55	160	310	248
China	4,305	26,560	79,842	98,111	110,583	117,464	120,200	127,042	133,612	133,522	135,885	148,187	157,093	152,342	159,019
Hong Kong SAR, China	1,060	8,244	11,607	11,569	13,312	12,817	13,690	12,350	11,973	13,859	12,975	15,672	16,186	21,133	21,542
Indonesia		3,733	4,069	5,122	5,297		6,787	7,321	8,095	8,538	7,032	8,347	8,388	6,851	7,403
Japan	34,360	49,501	59,118	54,517	55,030	55,783	56,705	60,030	59,882	58,137	58,189	59,937	62,597	61,124	66,748
Korea, Rep.	16,738	29,179	38,733	38,296	40,890	40,779	44,611	46,219	46,419	45,406	45,691	47,431	47,372	46,282	51,753
Lao PDR			4	20	43	53	69	43	61	63	97	58
Macao SAR, China			119	58	56	53	54	104	62	51	67	54	38	63	35
Malaysia	2,213	6,021	5,764	5,152	5,376	5,826	6,006	6,267	6,455	6,127	5,906	6,179	6,480	5,839	6,651
Mongolia			87	69			132	126	128	107	104	79	86	82	77
New Zealand	3,869	5,585	5,112	5,051	4,708	5,674	5,167	6,092	5,317	5,311	5,146	5,221	5,690	5,417	6,522
Papua New Guinea							79		46			33	63	53	29
Philippines	1,822	3,482	2,762	3,223	3,010	2,832	3,065	3,255	3,359	3,092	3,072	3,771	3,879	3,517	3,903
Samoa								99	3				1	2
Singapore		7,720	8,036	8,878	8,738	8,604	8,579	9,009	9,345	9,379	9,321	10,270	12,409	11,487	12,566
Thailand	1,867	4,488	5,449	723	2,997	5,726	5,832	6,924	7,138	6,722	6,886	7,245	7,307	6,662	7,375
Tonga										1	1			3	2
Vietnam	17	1,205	1,767	3,276	3,260	3,423	3,552	3,960	4,451	4,668	4,790	5,425	6,800	6,674	7,468
Albania			386		8		4	3	5	5	8	3	1		1
Armenia		8	2	6	19	4	6	2	2	1	3	4	4	7	8
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
Bulgaria	331	709	52	17	21	14	15	16	11	11	23	18	7	7	6
Croatia		538	649	21	21	32	23	30	17	13	11	15	16	12	11
Cyprus	43		44	4	8	8	1		1	1	4		1	1	2
Czechia		4,384	244	114	97	150	97	62	72	47	66	54	48	56	59
Denmark	1,843	140	165	142	197	229	193	206	270	298	282	239	228	217	186
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
Georgia		186	250	179	260	233	219	187	172	178	157	157	112	134	164
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
Hungary	1,976	4,127	497	47	36	66	66	73	64	49	36	36	23	28	13
Iceland	113	825	545	19	21	7	13	13	6	3	8	10	15	3	2
Ireland	4,001									70	75	32	35	54	42
Italy		1,396		846	927	871	905	781		973	1,031	900	898	947	797
Kazakhstan		116	103	273	317		378	271	232	231	173	193		97
Kyrgyz Republic		4		6	5	1	3	7	4	5	9		1	1	4
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
North Macedonia		53	15	1	3	3	4
Moldova		10	11	11	11	22	29	72	60	64	37	21	15	11	12
Montenegro				136	83	41
Netherlands	764	529	633	240	310	338	449	288	287	314	365	394	449	825	1,390
Norway	4,745	5,389	4,843	696	654	555	648	457	652	833	908	592	582	564	634
Poland	1,315	4,899	4,555	227	244	247	174	155	139	135	117	115	112	88	111
Portugal	3,541	65	47	46	75	26	22	18	20	27	36	29	104	263	42
Romania	304	287	68	36	39	55	53	84	78	58	80	47	58	47	45
Russian Federation		8,960	8,609	13,778	14,919	15,510	16,149	16,236	16,248	14,792	14,106	13,031	12,174	11,225	11,408
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
Sweden	1,073	844	438	353	337	148	163	441	390	352	305	442	388	432	425
Switzerland	1,081	468	455	533	446	1,508	631	568	446	309	291	332	348	301	267
Tajikistan		7	6	3	1	3	2		1				1	8
Turkiye	1,090	3,156	218	177	228	232	269	331	489	618	380	310	217	238	242
Ukraine		1,604	2,054	2,756	2,604	2,464	2,556	2,356	2,226	1,862	1,764	1,861	1,755	1,822	2,091
United Kingdom	8,928	10,697	10,155	6,439	6,916	7,865	7,966	7,844	7,934	8,183	8,771	8,076	7,189	8,659	7,263
Antigua and Barbuda					8	7	7	15	10	12	8	5		3	8
Argentina	1,955	5,574	4,215	4,165	4,133	4,078	4,129	4,173	3,579	2,925	3,050	3,242	3,260	2,562	3,263
Barbados			76	88	71	36	39	38	45	41			31
Belize			33		49	51	32	36	26	37	32	24	32	23	27
Bolivia								294		241	277			151	227
Brazil	5,148	14,104	14,444	20,771	23,954	25,637	25,925	25,683	25,578	22,810	20,178	19,877	19,932	19,058	19,566
Chile	642	2,879	2,646	748	2,453	2,683	2,732	2,653	2,831	2,521	2,469	2,694	2,799	2,433	2,680
Colombia		1,694	1,662	1,739	1,770	1,848	1,781	1,898	1,921	1,658	1,777	1,808	1,735	1,752	1,855
Costa Rica	43	47	423	606	610	578	580	529	582	497	504	490	483	524	566
Cuba	26		180		184	140	143	126		163	145	126	88	76	86
Dominican Republic		63	217	328	318	265	256	244	227	242	251	211	220	207	220
Ecuador		541	580	690			475	358	475	329	401	371	408	374	373
El Salvador	44					217	183	187	196	171	178	136	147	143	144
Grenada						26	33	17	9	17				16	16
Guatemala	97	250	388	374	327	337	319	288	341	266	275	228	231	205	249
Guyana	6					14	16	19	13	17	23	18
Haiti					13	15	11	19
Honduras	17	135			253	233	211		224	185	189	148	187		188
Jamaica	77	90	59	142	93	82	97	122	63	59	57	53	51	47	60
Mexico	4,400	12,630	13,851	13,625	12,990	14,020	14,234	14,889	16,707	16,103	15,850	14,869	14,636	13,180	15,044
Nicaragua		129			208	172	124	145
Panama	53	153		468	420	234	78	274	389	349	376	362	328	297	401
Paraguay	36	211	241	347								315	324	323	354
Peru	219	1,038	993	261	1,129	1,136	1,193	1,204	1,182	1,091	1,119	1,133	1,122	1,142	1,141
St. Kitts and Nevis									4	5	9	4
St. Lucia	2
St. Vincent and the Grenadines		2				2	8	8	7		3	4	3	5	11
Trinidad and Tobago		154	205			213	174	184	165	133	171	135	112	111	149
Uruguay		572	589	761	667	678		639	532		500
Venezuela, RB	1,090	2,292	2,232	1,773	1,564	1,461	1,389	1,377	928	560	338
Bahrain					139	161	167	199	185	171	237	219	322	257	326
Djibouti							2	4						5	10
Egypt, Arab Rep.	511	1,081	1,008	1,625	1,591	1,528	1,416	1,384	1,337	1,258	1,254	1,258	1,156	1,229	1,343
Israel	2,856	5,203	5,157	5,856	5,526	5,473	4,984	5,148	5,623	5,119	5,377	5,857	6,370	6,481	8,017
Jordan		127	169	429	360	346	357	339	294	256	174	109	290	301	322
Kuwait										37		256
Malta	17	93		7	6	6	4	8	2	1	7	15	7	5	5
Morocco	268		520	882	880	843	828	742	797	1,066	2,026	2,350	2,531	2,438	2,549
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
Tunisia	134	210	282	508	543	476	437	400	409	348	383	271
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
Yemen, Rep.		22	23	55	37	49	37	24	25	16	13		15	8	22
Canada	24,375	35,435	34,705	30,899	30,357	30,533	30,174	31,283	32,687	30,667	30,969	31,812	32,250	30,113	32,445
United States	80,520	131,100	182,866	248,249	255,832	274,033	283,781	293,706	301,075	310,244	313,052	312,046	336,340	327,586	329,229
Bangladesh	76	248	294	276	269	287	243	249	299	267	241	299	345	362	373
India	2,673	6,332	19,661	30,909	33,450	34,402	32,362	30,814	33,079	31,858	31,621	33,766	34,173	33,630	35,306
Nepal					15	13	12	36	71	26	43
Pakistan	524	1,149	1,141	980	861	798	783	776	677	636	505	586	561	562	567
Sri Lanka	83	250	211	235	235		188		263	293	266	260	255	251	273
Angola												114	108
Botswana					8	9	1	5	5	6	4	3		2
Burundi	3										10	2	15	5
Cabo Verde										1		1	1	4	1
Cote d'Ivoire						1
Congo, Dem. Rep.												107	90	110
Ghana	20									17	11	39		8
Kenya			59	120	122	136	114	75	56	59	43	42	41	35	37
Madagascar		48	35	34	58	40	47	29	16	30	42	37	30	21	22
Malawi	33	17								1
Mauritius	3				19	14	18	18	20	36	18	13	23	19	14
Mozambique		8	14	25	15	26	30	46	30	25	26	13	24	14	16
Namibia	158								11	14	15	15	12
Nigeria	246				747	676	869			150	180	509	683	598
Rwanda	4					30		7	1	3	2	1			2
Seychelles										14	46	17	12	9	28
Sierra Leone												100	5	4
South Africa	4,943	2,400	6,001	5,562	6,589	6,836	6,657	6,750	6,608	6,506	6,816	6,258	6,347	6,146	9,156
Eswatini					6	3		2	2
Tanzania			3	1	2		3	4	1
Gambia, The									2	2	4		16	66	91
Uganda	13						4	3			6	1	1	6	4
Zambia	50		22	12	21	31	26	25	12	18	10	13	21	10	13
Zimbabwe	159								19	5

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