Estonia vs Qatar: Annual patent applications per million people

Estonia
18.78 applications per million people
in 2021
Qatar
18.76 applications per million people
in 2021
Estonia rank
59th
Qatar rank
60th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Estonia
  • Qatar
0204060199420072021

How they compare

Estonia currently reports 18.78 applications per million people against 18.76 applications per million people in Qatar, a difference of 0.0207 applications per million people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Estonia ahead.

Estonia ranks 59th and Qatar ranks 60th 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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