Botswana vs Mozambique: Annual patent applications per million people

Botswana
1.25 applications per million people
in 2021
Mozambique
0.9461 applications per million people
in 2021
Botswana rank
112th
Mozambique rank
114th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Botswana
  • Mozambique
01234199920102021

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 1.25 applications per million people against 0.9461 applications per million people in Mozambique, a difference of 0.3031 applications per million people.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.3 times Mozambique's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 10 shared years of data; in 2011 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 112th and Mozambique ranks 114th 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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