Canada vs Monaco: Annual patent applications per million people

Canada
123.17 applications per million people
in 2021
Monaco
129.78 applications per million people
in 2021
Canada rank
23rd
Monaco rank
22nd

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Canada
  • Monaco
0200400600800198020002021

How they compare

Monaco currently reports 129.78 applications per million people against 123.17 applications per million people in Canada, a difference of 6.61 applications per million people.

That makes Monaco's figure about 1.1 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 23rd and Monaco ranks 22nd 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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