Malaysia vs Spain: Annual patent applications per million people

Malaysia
25.76 applications per million people
in 2021
Spain
27.57 applications per million people
in 2021
Malaysia rank
50th
Spain rank
48th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Malaysia
  • Spain
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How they compare

Spain currently reports 27.57 applications per million people against 25.76 applications per million people in Malaysia, a difference of 1.81 applications per million people.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 37 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Spain ahead.

Malaysia ranks 50th and Spain ranks 48th 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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