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Patent applications, residents

Observed

Patent applications filed through national patent offices by residents.

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

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, World
2.7Mapplications 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+172,600contextual+6.82%2023 to 2024from 2.53M to 2.7M applications per year
10-year trend+4.12% per yearcontextual+49.70%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +897,200 applications per year, from 1.81M to 2.7M applications per year
Historical series

Patent applications, residents, World

Observed
500,0001M1.5M2M2.5M3M198519901995200020052010201520202024APPLICATIONS PER YEAR2.7M
40 observations, 1985 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (40 rows)
Patent applications, residents, World: 40 observations from 1985 to 2024, values from 601,000 to 2.7M applications per year. Latest 2.7M applications per year in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (applications per year)Source revisionIngested at
20242,702,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20232,530,0002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20222,429,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20212,402,8002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20202,330,0002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20192,256,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20182,396,0002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20172,259,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20162,223,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20151,980,4002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20141,805,4002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20131,713,1002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20121,523,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20111,371,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20101,242,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20091,149,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20081,155,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20071,115,7002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20061,067,5002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
20051,033,1002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2004964,9002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2003917,5002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2002881,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2001885,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
2000864,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1999793,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1998757,5002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1997738,3002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1996708,4002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1995703,6002026-10-082026-10-12 00:08 UTC
1994637,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1993649,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1992635,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1991601,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1990687,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1989705,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1988714,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1987712,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1986675,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1985651,1002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
172 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series IP.PAT.RESD
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 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-resident
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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.RESDlast 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
2026-10-082,702,6002026-10-12 00:08 UTCcurrent
27 superseded rows kept for this geography across all periods.