NationMaster - Patents granted (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	Japan:	994 per million people
#2	Korea, South:	779 per million people
#3	United States:	289 per million people
#4	Sweden:	271 per million people
#5	Germany:	235 per million people
#6	France:	205 per million people
#7	Luxembourg:	202 per million people
#8	Netherlands:	189 per million people
#9	Finland:	187 per million people
#10	Switzerland:	183 per million people
#11	Austria:	165 per million people
#12	Russia:	131 per million people
#13	Ireland:	106 per million people
#14	Slovenia:	105 per million people
#15	New Zealand:	103 per million people
#16	Norway:	103 per million people
#17	Ukraine:	84 per million people
#18	United Kingdom:	82 per million people
#19	Australia:	75 per million people
#20	Israel:	74 per million people
#21	Belgium:	72 per million people
#22	Latvia:	71 per million people
#23	Romania:	71 per million people
#24	Georgia:	67 per million people
#25	Mongolia:	56 per million people
#26	Kazakhstan:	55 per million people
#27	Denmark:	52 per million people
#28	Belarus:	50 per million people
#29	Spain:	42 per million people
#30	Canada:	31 per million people
#31	Poland:	30 per million people
#32	Czech Republic:	28 per million people
#33	Lithuania:	27 per million people
#34	Hungary:	26 per million people
#35	Uzbekistan:	25 per million people
#36	Slovakia:	24 per million people
#37	Bulgaria:	23 per million people
#38	Malta:	18 per million people
#39	Iceland:	15 per million people
#40	Kyrgyzstan:	14 per million people
#41	Italy:	13 per million people
#42	Turkmenistan:	10 per million people
#43	Croatia:	9 per million people
#44	Armenia:	8 per million people
#45	Singapore:	8 per million people
#46	Argentina:	8 per million people
#47	Portugal:	6 per million people
#48	Morocco:	3 per million people
#49	Brazil:	2 per million people
#50	Tajikistan:	2 per million people
#51	Uruguay:	2 per million people
#52	Estonia:	1 per million people
#53	India:	1 per million people
#54	Mexico:	1 per million people
#55	Colombia:	1 per million people
#56	Gambia, The:	1 per million people
#57	Botswana:	1 per million people
#58	Iran:	1 per million people
#59	China:	1 per million people
#60	Thailand:	1 per million people
	Weighted average:	90.7 per million people

DEFINITION: Patents granted to residents per million people 1998.

SOURCE: WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). 2001. Intellectual Property Statistics. Publication A. Geneva

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