Brazil vs Chile: Annual patent applications per million people

Brazil
22.27 applications per million people
in 2021
Chile
20.66 applications per million people
in 2021
Brazil rank
55th
Chile rank
56th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Brazil
  • Chile
1015202530198020002021

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 22.27 applications per million people against 20.66 applications per million people in Chile, a difference of 1.61 applications per million people.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 55th and Chile ranks 56th 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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