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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 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
applications per year
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1-year change+100contextual+0.01%2023 to 2024from 1.02M to 1.02M applications per year
10-year trend+1.57% per yearcontextual+16.85%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +147,400 applications per year, from 875,000 to 1.02M applications per year
Historical series

Patent applications, nonresidents, World

Observed
200,000400,000600,000800,0001M1.2M198519901995200020052010201520202024APPLICATIONS PER YEAR1.02M
40 observations, 1985 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (40 rows)
Patent applications, nonresidents, World: 40 observations from 1985 to 2024, values from 270,700 to 1.02M applications per year. Latest 1.02M applications per year in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (applications per year)Source revisionIngested at
20241,022,4002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20231,022,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20221,024,8002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2021996,8002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2020952,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2019976,2002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2018937,5002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2017909,2002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2016901,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2015906,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2014875,0002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2013851,1002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2012833,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2011787,1002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2010755,7002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2009706,7002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2008774,8002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2007759,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2006724,7002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2005671,4002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2004606,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2003561,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2002547,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2001547,8002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2000507,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1999476,0002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1998456,5002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1997414,4002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1996379,7002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1995344,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 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
182 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
2026-10-08(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-10-19 00:18 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.
40 periods with values for this geography, 1985 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) 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
2026-10-081,022,4002026-10-12 00:08 UTCcurrent
27 superseded rows kept for this geography across all periods.