Argentina vs Malta: Annual patent applications per million people

Argentina
8.96 applications per million people
in 2021
Malta
9.65 applications per million people
in 2021
Argentina rank
76th
Malta rank
74th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Argentina
  • Malta
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How they compare

Malta currently reports 9.65 applications per million people against 8.96 applications per million people in Argentina, a difference of 0.6897 applications per million people.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.1 times Argentina's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 76th and Malta ranks 74th 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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