Lithuania vs Malaysia: Annual patent applications per million people

Lithuania
28.84 applications per million people
in 2021
Malaysia
25.76 applications per million people
in 2021
Lithuania rank
47th
Malaysia rank
50th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Lithuania
  • Malaysia
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How they compare

Lithuania currently reports 28.84 applications per million people against 25.76 applications per million people in Malaysia, a difference of 3.09 applications per million people.

That makes Lithuania's figure about 1.1 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Lithuania ahead.

Lithuania ranks 47th and Malaysia ranks 50th 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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