Technology
Non-resident patents
IP.PAT.NRES
Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, Sudan. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
- Latest value, United Kingdom
- 7,2632021
- Period covered
- 1980 - 202142 annual values
- Highest of the compared countries
- 329,229United States, 2021
- Lowest of the compared countries
- 7Sudan, 2020
7 of 8 countries compared, out of 142.
Latest known valuesorted by value
United States329,2292021
China159,0192021
United Kingdom7,2632021
Netherlands1,3902021
Italy7972021
Spain1262021
Sudan72020
Year by year values
Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.
| United Kingdom | Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | China | Sudan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7,263 | 797 | 126 | 1,390 | 329,229 | 159,019 | |
| 2020 | 8,659 | 947 | 124 | 825 | 327,586 | 152,342 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7,189 | 898 | 159 | 449 | 336,340 | 157,093 | 7 |
| 2018 | 8,076 | 900 | 149 | 394 | 312,046 | 148,187 | 31 |
| 2017 | 8,771 | 1,031 | 176 | 365 | 313,052 | 135,885 | 12 |
| 2016 | 8,183 | 973 | 177 | 314 | 310,244 | 133,522 | 1 |
| 2015 | 7,934 | 221 | 287 | 301,075 | 133,612 | 1 | |
| 2014 | 7,844 | 781 | 225 | 288 | 293,706 | 127,042 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7,966 | 905 | 218 | 449 | 283,781 | 120,200 | |
| 2012 | 7,865 | 871 | 209 | 338 | 274,033 | 117,464 | |
| 2011 | 6,916 | 927 | 196 | 310 | 255,832 | 110,583 | 3 |
| 2010 | 6,439 | 846 | 213 | 240 | 248,249 | 98,111 | 2 |
| 2009 | 6,480 | 903 | 207 | 279 | 231,194 | 85,508 | 2 |
| 2008 | 6,856 | 861 | 252 | 311 | 224,733 | 95,259 | 3 |
| 2007 | 7,624 | 870 | 265 | 367 | 214,807 | 92,101 | 13 |
| 2006 | 8,261 | 316 | 548 | 204,182 | 88,183 | 13 | |
| 2005 | 10,155 | 313 | 633 | 182,866 | 79,842 | 16 | |
| 2004 | 10,776 | 313 | 556 | 167,407 | 64,598 | 17 | |
| 2003 | 11,198 | 367 | 573 | 153,500 | 48,548 | 11 | |
| 2002 | 10,907 | 371 | 481 | 150,200 | 40,426 | 20 | |
| 2001 | 10,658 | 467 | 543 | 148,958 | 33,412 | 13 | |
| 2000 | 10,697 | 1,396 | 484 | 529 | 131,100 | 26,560 | 16 |
| 1999 | 10,399 | 1,172 | 506 | 506 | 116,512 | 34,418 | 4 |
| 1998 | 10,083 | 476 | 549 | 102,246 | 33,645 | ||
| 1997 | 10,171 | 496 | 637 | 101,282 | 12,102 | ||
| 1996 | 9,821 | 1,678 | 524 | 633 | 105,054 | 11,114 | |
| 1995 | 8,891 | 553 | 569 | 104,180 | 8,688 | ||
| 1994 | 8,081 | 439 | 537 | 501 | 95,522 | 7,876 | |
| 1993 | 7,922 | 483 | 563 | 560 | 84,241 | 7,534 | |
| 1992 | 7,839 | 486 | 561 | 555 | 90,922 | 4,387 | 26 |
| 1991 | 8,357 | 746 | 595 | 84,160 | 4,051 | ||
| 1990 | 8,928 | 1,079 | 764 | 80,520 | 4,305 | ||
| 1989 | 9,637 | 2,318 | 993 | 76,337 | 4,910 | ||
| 1988 | 9,935 | 8,000 | 2,209 | 1,068 | 68,644 | 4,872 | |
| 1987 | 10,419 | 2,590 | 1,201 | 63,522 | 4,084 | ||
| 1986 | 11,063 | 8,581 | 1,464 | 55,721 | 4,515 | ||
| 1985 | 12,293 | 7,851 | 9,149 | 1,658 | 51,562 | 4,493 | |
| 1984 | 13,735 | 8,916 | 2,139 | 49,443 | |||
| 1983 | 14,798 | 12,080 | 8,352 | 2,611 | 44,312 | 67 | |
| 1982 | 16,563 | 8,555 | 3,212 | 46,309 | |||
| 1981 | 18,406 | 8,509 | 4,228 | 44,009 | |||
| 1980 | 22,000 | 9,971 | 9,001 | 5,532 | 42,231 |
World Bank definition
Patent applications, nonresidents
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--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years.
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