Belarus vs Romania: Annual patent applications per million people

Belarus
29.67 applications per million people
in 2021
Romania
40.37 applications per million people
in 2021
Belarus rank
44th
Romania rank
41st

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Belarus
  • Romania
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How they compare

Romania currently reports 40.37 applications per million people against 29.67 applications per million people in Belarus, a difference of 10.7 applications per million people.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.4 times Belarus's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1993 it was Belarus ahead.

Belarus ranks 44th and Romania ranks 41st 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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