Mexico vs Panama: Annual patent applications per million people

Mexico
8.75 applications per million people
in 2021
Panama
8.05 applications per million people
in 2021
Mexico rank
77th
Panama rank
79th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Mexico
  • Panama
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How they compare

Mexico currently reports 8.75 applications per million people against 8.05 applications per million people in Panama, a difference of 0.6961 applications per million people.

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

The two have swapped places 8 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Mexico ahead.

Mexico ranks 77th and Panama ranks 79th 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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