Malta vs Mexico: Annual patent applications per million people

Malta
9.65 applications per million people
in 2021
Mexico
8.75 applications per million people
in 2021
Malta rank
74th
Mexico rank
77th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Malta
  • Mexico
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How they compare

Malta currently reports 9.65 applications per million people against 8.75 applications per million people in Mexico, a difference of 0.8991 applications per million people.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.1 times Mexico's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Malta ahead.

Malta ranks 74th and Mexico ranks 77th of 135 regions.

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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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