Chile vs Estonia: Annual patent applications per million people

Chile
20.66 applications per million people
in 2021
Estonia
18.78 applications per million people
in 2021
Chile rank
56th
Estonia rank
59th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Chile
  • Estonia
0204060198020002021

How they compare

Chile currently reports 20.66 applications per million people against 18.78 applications per million people in Estonia, a difference of 1.88 applications per million people.

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

The two have swapped places 10 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 56th and Estonia ranks 59th 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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