Filing origins ranked by resident patent applications per million residents; applications per million people, 2024.
Resident patent filing intensity is ranked across nations for 2024. The measure is applications per million residents and includes origins with at least 1,000 resident filings. South Korea ranks first at 3,783 applications per million residents, followed by Japan at 1,913 applications per million residents. Austria ranks 11th at 417 applications per million residents, and the leading value is 9.07x as large.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 3,783 | 2024 |
| 2 | Japan | 1,913 | 2024 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 1,235 | 2024 |
| 4 | China | 1,187 | 2024 |
| 5 | United States | 795 | 2024 |
| 6 | Germany | 780 | 2024 |
| 7 | Finland | 740 | 2024 |
| 8 | Sweden | 642 | 2024 |
| 9 | Denmark | 591 | 2024 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 491 | 2024 |
| 11 | Austria | 417 | 2024 |
Source 1: World Intellectual Property Indicators 2025
Publisher: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Dataset/table: Resident patent applications per million residents, 2024
Units: applications per million residents
Date checked: 2026-07-17
Evidence: Provides the 2024 resident patent applications per million residents used in this ranking.
The numerator is resident patent applications by applicant origin, and the denominator is population in millions under WIPO’s normalized measure. This is an origin-based intensity statistic rather than an office filing total.
The ranking uses WIPO’s published resident-patent intensity measure for 2024 rather than combining a separate population series. Origins must have at least 1,000 resident applications and are ordered from highest to lowest.
All entries use the same WIPO-published 2024 intensity measure, denominator basis and minimum-filing rule.
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