Algeria vs Morocco: Annual patent applications per million people

Algeria
5.99 applications per million people
in 2021
Morocco
6.87 applications per million people
in 2021
Algeria rank
86th
Morocco rank
83rd

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Algeria
  • Morocco
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How they compare

Morocco currently reports 6.87 applications per million people against 5.99 applications per million people in Algeria, a difference of 0.886 applications per million people.

That makes Morocco's figure about 1.1 times Algeria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Morocco ahead.

Algeria ranks 86th and Morocco ranks 83rd of 135 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual patent applications per million people
Unit
applications per million people
Source
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), via World Bank (2026); United Nations Population Division, national statistical offices, and Eurostat, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World i
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
135 places, 3,804 data points, 1980–2021
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