Madagascar vs Malawi: Annual patent applications per million people

Madagascar
0.2021 applications per million people
in 2021
Malawi
0.1709 applications per million people
in 2016
Madagascar rank
127th
Malawi rank
129th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
00.511.5198020002021

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 0.2021 applications per million people against 0.1709 applications per million people in Malawi, a difference of 0.0312 applications per million people.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.2 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 9 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Madagascar ahead.

Madagascar ranks 127th and Malawi ranks 129th 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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