PCT patents

applications per million people, 2012–2016

Country	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Albania		0.16	0.35	0.18	0.24
Algeria	0.20	0.09	0.15	0.18	0.22
Angola		0.01	0.01
Argentina	1.08	1.21	1.36	1.29	1.18
Armenia	1.37	1.71	3.17	3.73	2.77
Australia	83.50	81.66	78.35	76.91	76.17
Austria	144.62	157.73	166.31	167.48	170.05
Azerbaijan	0.44	0.44	0.62	0.71	0.48
Bahrain	2.07	1.88	1.14	1.93	3.09
Bangladesh	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02
Barbados	11.47	11.30	40.61	46.24	51.86
Belgium	102.37	109.62	113.35	111.09	108.51
Benin	0.03	0.03
Bhutan		0.41	0.41
Bolivia	0.04	0.09	0.08	0.12	0.09
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.09	1.96	2.17	2.38	1.94
Botswana		0.05	0.15	0.34	0.15
Brazil	2.77	2.89	3.23	3.51	3.53
Brunei	1.91	3.13	3.18	3.22	3.26
Bulgaria	3.61	3.75	5.05	6.87	7.00
Burkina Faso	0.03	0.02	0.02
Cambodia				0.02	0.04
Cameroon	0.24	0.19	0.06	0.00	0.03
Canada	77.60	81.27	84.85	86.73	90.06
Chad	0.05	0.04
Chile	3.81	5.72	6.69	7.06	7.46
China	6.51	9.16	11.66	13.44	15.25
Colombia	1.13	1.12	1.24	1.44	1.94
Costa Rica	1.66	1.70	1.34	1.37	2.37
Ivory Coast		0.03	0.04	0.05	0.05
Croatia	9.97	10.18	9.98	10.26	9.70
Cyprus	9.41	8.11	12.00	10.56	10.50
Czech Republic	18.42	15.26	15.83	19.38	21.71
Denmark	210.52	203.30	214.76	215.42	210.83
Dominican Republic	0.46	0.29	0.48	0.41	0.38
Ecuador	0.17	0.11	0.31	0.52	0.23
Egypt	0.62	0.62	0.59	0.65	0.77
El Salvador	0.41	0.08	0.01	0.10	0.27
Estonia	34.53	35.19	32.70	22.40	18.72
Ethiopia		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Finland	277.09	283.83	286.71	293.99	291.21
France	110.17	109.20	118.15	121.86	122.93
Gabon	0.17	0.17	0.33	0.32	0.37
Gambia				0.14	0.40
Georgia	1.47	1.44	1.27	1.58	2.15
Germany	203.60	214.56	226.89	225.22	219.05
Ghana	0.03	0.02	0.05	0.08	0.05
Greece	9.44	8.77	7.62	9.23	10.53
Guatemala	0.46	0.14	0.08	0.12	0.08
Haiti	0.03
Hungary	22.08	23.25	24.97	24.83	23.73
Iceland	96.79	95.95	91.44	100.17	104.96
India	1.16	1.37	1.54	1.57	1.63
Indonesia	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.10	0.12
Iran	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.06	0.11
Ireland	90.48	79.45	82.59	86.72	83.76
Israel	235.48	218.76	230.05	239.10	246.56
Italy	51.67	51.60	53.84	55.19	56.59
Jamaica	0.68	0.56	0.64	0.42	0.57
Japan	210.74	258.45	308.25	334.87	335.38
Jordan	0.52	0.21	0.45	0.74	0.84
Kazakhstan	1.11	1.21	1.05	0.97	1.37
Kenya	0.13	0.11	0.17	0.23	0.23
South Korea	161.11	183.36	201.52	220.73	233.16
Kuwait	0.36	0.22	0.49	0.32	0.34
Kyrgyzstan	0.07	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.13
Laos			0.02	0.02	0.16
Latvia	12.45	10.01	9.22	13.79	16.42
Lebanon	1.05	1.45	1.66	1.71	1.48
Lesotho	0.23
Libya	0.51	0.35
Lithuania	6.21	4.74	6.13	10.79	15.05
Luxembourg	105.27	101.45	118.63	131.27	120.85
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)	1.54	0.73	0.24	0.61	1.45
Madagascar		0.02	0.05	0.05	0.07
Malawi		0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Malaysia	9.57	12.12	12.62	11.58	11.35
Malta	12.92	9.90	10.22	10.48	19.36
Mauritius	0.26	0.07	0.19	1.53	1.63
Mexico	1.65	1.73	1.83	1.92	2.04
Moldova	0.71	0.39	0.77	1.16	0.67
Mongolia	0.23	0.06	0.30	0.72	0.71
Montenegro		3.17	3.22	0.80	3.22
Morocco	0.65	0.55	0.55	0.96	1.53
Namibia	0.30	0.07	1.70	0.17	0.23
Nepal	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01
Netherlands	203.25	184.65	192.63	208.87	208.66
New Zealand	75.80	74.21	73.92	74.61	78.88
Nicaragua			0.09	0.17	0.08
Nigeria	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02
Norway	143.59	149.70	138.71	138.39	140.74
Oman	0.44	1.30	0.99	0.65	0.38
Pakistan	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.03
Panama	0.44	0.47	1.37	1.91	1.65
Paraguay	0.08	0.12	0.11	0.04
Peru	0.23	0.25	0.28	0.34	0.48
Philippines	0.30	0.27	0.32	0.34	0.34
Poland	5.75	6.88	7.15	8.60	9.72
Portugal	12.24	12.65	13.01	13.67	14.38
Puerto Rico			2.11
Qatar	1.27	1.60	6.37	17.73	22.47
Romania	1.89	1.95	2.24	2.71	3.42
Russia	5.38	6.11	7.13	7.69	8.07
Rwanda					0.01
Saudi Arabia	2.16	3.28	6.65	7.03	6.21
Senegal	0.04	0.03	0.07	0.05
Serbia		2.85	2.31	3.02	3.83
Seychelles	5.81	31.78	30.22	5.38
Sierra Leone	0.04	0.09	0.04	0.04	0.05
Singapore	123.22	124.38	125.18	127.02	139.48
Slovakia	6.05	7.26	9.20	9.23	10.54
Slovenia	66.05	63.12	62.98	62.32	67.84
South Africa	6.78	6.23	6.48	6.86	6.52
Spain	35.35	39.16	39.59	38.19	37.67
Sri Lanka	0.71	0.57	0.62	0.61	0.82
Suriname	0.19	0.67	0.46
Swaziland	0.21	0.22	0.23	0.57
Sweden	311.00	302.70	300.83	312.48	319.97
Switzerland	287.18	290.07	315.05	320.82	313.52
Tanzania	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.00
Thailand	0.64	1.00	1.23	1.27	1.36
Timor Leste			0.30
Trinidad and Tobago	2.04	1.42	0.96	0.96	0.37
Tunisia		1.15	1.17	0.77	0.67
Turkey	5.78	6.63	6.83	7.55	9.15
Uganda	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.03	0.01
Ukraine	2.08	2.85	3.19	3.59	3.93
United Arab Emirates	4.51	4.24	5.01	5.01	6.77
United Kingdom	93.01	90.59	89.14	89.94	94.48
United States	137.89	141.14	149.78	160.31	174.89
Uruguay	2.06	1.14	2.38	3.29	3.00
Venezuela	0.12	0.21	0.25	0.29	0.27
Vietnam	0.10	0.15	0.22	0.23	0.21
Yemen	0.04	0.04
Zambia	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.01
Zimbabwe	0.09	0.09	0.14	0.10	0.10

Number of applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) per million population.

Source: World Economic Forum

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