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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
2.39Mapplications 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+73,700contextual+3.19%2020 to 2021from 2.31M to 2.39M applications per year
10-year trend+5.74% per yearcontextual+74.71%2011 to 2021compound annual growth rate; total +1.02M applications per year, from 1.37M to 2.39M applications per year
Historical series

Patent applications, residents, World

Observed
500,0001M1.5M2M2.5M198519901995200020052010201520202021APPLICATIONS PER YEAR2.39M
37 observations, 1985 to 2021latest point emphasised
Data table (37 rows)
Patent applications, residents, World: 37 observations from 1985 to 2021, values from 601,000 to 2.39M applications per year. Latest 2.39M applications per year in 2021. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (applications per year)Source revisionIngested at
20212,385,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20202,311,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20192,239,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20182,386,3002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20172,251,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20162,215,1002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20151,972,5002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20141,799,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20131,708,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20121,519,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20111,365,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20101,236,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20091,146,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20081,162,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20071,125,0002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20061,075,2002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20051,038,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2004966,6002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2003924,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2002888,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2001896,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2000874,8002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1999791,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1998756,4002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1997737,1002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1996707,7002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1995702,9002026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 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
170 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
2026-07-13(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
2026-07-132,385,2002026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.