Philippines vs Samoa: Annual patent applications per million people

Philippines
4.33 applications per million people
in 2021
Samoa
4.68 applications per million people
in 2021
Philippines rank
93rd
Samoa rank
91st

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Philippines
  • Samoa
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How they compare

Samoa currently reports 4.68 applications per million people against 4.33 applications per million people in Philippines, a difference of 0.3453 applications per million people.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Philippines's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 6 shared years of data; in 1981 it was Samoa ahead.

Philippines ranks 93rd and Samoa ranks 91st 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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