Bulgaria vs Spain: Annual patent applications per million people

Bulgaria
25.36 applications per million people
in 2021
Spain
27.57 applications per million people
in 2021
Bulgaria rank
51st
Spain rank
48th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Spain
0100200300400198020002021

How they compare

Spain currently reports 27.57 applications per million people against 25.36 applications per million people in Bulgaria, a difference of 2.21 applications per million people.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 51st and Spain ranks 48th 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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