Ecuador vs Libya: Annual patent applications per million people

Ecuador
1.98 applications per million people
in 2021
Libya
2.41 applications per million people
in 1996
Ecuador rank
104th
Libya rank
101st

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Ecuador
  • Libya
0246198020002021

How they compare

Libya currently reports 2.41 applications per million people against 1.98 applications per million people in Ecuador, a difference of 0.4267 applications per million people.

That makes Libya's figure about 1.2 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 6 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 104th and Libya ranks 101st 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
Last refreshed