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Patent applications, nonresidents

Observed

Patent applications filed through national patent offices by nonresidents.

Component series: ingested for the derived metric patent-applications, not listed in the catalog.

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, World
1.02Mapplications per year
period 2021
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2021
Unit
applications per year
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1-year change+45,500contextual+4.69%2020 to 2021from 970,400 to 1.02M applications per year
10-year trend+2.51% per yearcontextual+28.11%2011 to 2021compound annual growth rate; total +222,900 applications per year, from 793,000 to 1.02M applications per year
Historical series

Patent applications, nonresidents, World

Observed
200,000400,000600,000800,0001M1.2M198519901995200020052010201520202021APPLICATIONS PER YEAR1.02M
37 observations, 1985 to 2021latest point emphasised
Data table (37 rows)
Patent applications, nonresidents, World: 37 observations from 1985 to 2021, values from 270,700 to 1.02M applications per year. Latest 1.02M applications per year in 2021. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (applications per year)Source revisionIngested at
20211,015,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2020970,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2019993,6002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2018946,3002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2017917,6002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2016909,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2015913,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2014880,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2013855,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2012836,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2011793,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2010760,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2009709,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2008767,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2007749,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2006716,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2005664,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2004601,6002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2003559,1002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2002555,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2001560,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2000502,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1999477,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1998458,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1997426,1002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1996380,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1995345,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1994305,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1993294,1002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1992307,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1991287,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1990309,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1989309,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1988294,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1987282,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1986272,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1985270,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
180 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series IP.PAT.NRES
Definition

What this measures

Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention, filed by applicants not resident in the country. Source: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), compiled by the World Bank. Component of the derived metric patent-applications.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
world, regions, countries
Slug
patent-applications-nonresident
Science & Knowledge

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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
IP.PAT.NRESlast fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
Parser version
world-bank-v2/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
no notes recorded
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100,000,000 applications per year.
37 periods with values for this geography, 1985 to 2021.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2021) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (applications per year)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-131,015,9002026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.