Botswana vs Rwanda: Annual patent applications per million people

Botswana
1.25 applications per million people
in 2021
Rwanda
1.05 applications per million people
in 2021
Botswana rank
112th
Rwanda rank
113th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Botswana
  • Rwanda
01234198820042021

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 1.25 applications per million people against 1.05 applications per million people in Rwanda, a difference of 0.201 applications per million people.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.2 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 6 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Rwanda ahead.

Botswana ranks 112th and Rwanda ranks 113th 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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