Ecuador vs Nigeria: Annual patent applications per million people

Ecuador
1.98 applications per million people
in 2021
Nigeria
1.92 applications per million people
in 2020
Ecuador rank
104th
Nigeria rank
106th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Ecuador
  • Nigeria
01234198020002021

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 1.98 applications per million people against 1.92 applications per million people in Nigeria, a difference of 0.0634 applications per million people.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 6 shared years of data; in 2013 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 104th and Nigeria ranks 106th 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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