Kenya vs Sudan: Annual patent applications per million people

Kenya
3.01 applications per million people
in 2021
Sudan
3.27 applications per million people
in 2020
Kenya rank
97th
Sudan rank
94th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Kenya
  • Sudan
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How they compare

Sudan currently reports 3.27 applications per million people against 3.01 applications per million people in Kenya, a difference of 0.2635 applications per million people.

That makes Sudan's figure about 1.1 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 18 shared years of data; in 1999 it was Kenya ahead.

Kenya ranks 97th and Sudan ranks 94th 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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