India vs Iraq: Annual patent applications per million people

India
18.57 applications per million people
in 2021
Iraq
15.08 applications per million people
in 2020
India rank
61st
Iraq rank
64th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • India
  • Iraq
05101520198020002021

How they compare

India currently reports 18.57 applications per million people against 15.08 applications per million people in Iraq, a difference of 3.5 applications per million people.

That makes India's figure about 1.2 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 19 shared years of data; in 1980 it was India ahead.

India ranks 61st and Iraq ranks 64th 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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