Cuba vs Ecuador: Annual patent applications per million people

Cuba
1.89 applications per million people
in 2021
Ecuador
1.98 applications per million people
in 2021
Cuba rank
107th
Ecuador rank
104th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Cuba
  • Ecuador
05101520198020002021

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 1.98 applications per million people against 1.89 applications per million people in Cuba, a difference of 0.0912 applications per million people.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Cuba ahead.

Cuba ranks 107th and Ecuador ranks 104th 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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