Cyprus vs Rwanda: Annual patent applications per million people

Cyprus
0.7591 applications per million people
in 2021
Rwanda
1.05 applications per million people
in 2021
Cyprus rank
116th
Rwanda rank
113th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Cyprus
  • Rwanda
05101520198020002021

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 1.05 applications per million people against 0.7591 applications per million people in Cyprus, a difference of 0.2892 applications per million people.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.4 times Cyprus's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 7 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Rwanda ahead.

Cyprus ranks 116th and Rwanda ranks 113th 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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