Austria vs Barbados: Annual patent applications per million people

Austria
209.03 applications per million people
in 2021
Barbados
258.73 applications per million people
in 2021
Austria rank
10th
Barbados rank
9th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Austria
  • Barbados
0100200300198020002021

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 258.73 applications per million people against 209.03 applications per million people in Austria, a difference of 49.7 applications per million people.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.2 times Austria's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 8 shared years of data; in 1984 it was Austria ahead.

Austria ranks 10th and Barbados ranks 9th 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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