Namibia vs Philippines: Annual patent applications per million people

Namibia
3.02 applications per million people
in 2019
Philippines
4.33 applications per million people
in 2021
Namibia rank
96th
Philippines rank
93rd

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Namibia
  • Philippines
2468198020002021

How they compare

Philippines currently reports 4.33 applications per million people against 3.02 applications per million people in Namibia, a difference of 1.31 applications per million people.

That makes Philippines's figure about 1.4 times Namibia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 8 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Namibia ahead.

Namibia ranks 96th and Philippines ranks 93rd 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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