Spain vs Ukraine: Annual patent applications per million people

Spain
27.57 applications per million people
in 2021
Ukraine
29.39 applications per million people
in 2021
Spain rank
48th
Ukraine rank
45th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Spain
  • Ukraine
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How they compare

Ukraine currently reports 29.39 applications per million people against 27.57 applications per million people in Spain, a difference of 1.82 applications per million people.

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

The two have swapped places 5 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Spain ahead.

Spain ranks 48th and Ukraine ranks 45th 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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