Greece vs Hungary: Annual patent applications per million people

Greece
37.27 applications per million people
in 2021
Hungary
44.96 applications per million people
in 2021
Greece rank
42nd
Hungary rank
39th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Greece
  • Hungary
0100200300198020002021

How they compare

Hungary currently reports 44.96 applications per million people against 37.27 applications per million people in Greece, a difference of 7.68 applications per million people.

That makes Hungary's figure about 1.2 times Greece's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Hungary ahead.

Greece ranks 42nd and Hungary ranks 39th 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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