Patent applications to the European Patent Office by applicants' / inventors' country of residence — Inventor
Compare patent applications to the european patent office by applicants' / inventors' country of residence — inventor across 37 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 Eurostat reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •37 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Number observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Germany has the highest published value (25669 Number).
- •The Republic of North Macedonia has the lowest published value (1 Number).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 2,106.6Number)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Patent applications to the European Patent Office by applicants' / inventors' country of residence; fixed slice coop_ptn: Inventor [INVT]; freq: Annual [A]; unit: Number [NR]
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 Eurostat slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
Patent applications to the European Patent Office by applicants' / inventors' country of residence; fixed slice coop_ptn: Inventor [INVT]; freq: Annual [A]; unit: Number [NR]
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 25,669.0Number |
| 2 | France | 11,241.0Number |
| 3 | Netherlands | 6,826.0Number |
| 4 | Switzerland | 6,074.0Number |
| 5 | Italy | 5,524.0Number |
| 6 | Sweden | 4,203.0Number |
| 7 | Denmark | 2,901.0Number |
| 8 | Spain | 2,631.0Number |
| 9 | Belgium | 2,625.0Number |
| 10 | Austria | 2,537.0Number |
| 11 | Finland | 2,105.0Number |
| 12 | Poland | 901.0Number |
| 13 | Ireland | 760.0Number |
| 14 | Norway | 750.0Number |
| 15 | Türkiye | 701.0Number |
| 16 | Portugal | 424.0Number |
| 17 | Czech Republic | 394.0Number |
| 18 | Hungary | 276.0Number |
| 19 | Slovenia | 201.0Number |
| 20 | Greece | 161.0Number |
| 21 | Luxembourg | 161.0Number |
| 22 | Romania | 148.0Number |
| 23 | Slovakia | 119.0Number |
| 24 | Lithuania | 93.0Number |
| 25 | Bulgaria | 85.0Number |
| 26 | Estonia | 78.0Number |
| 27 | Iceland | 78.0Number |
| 28 | Croatia | 72.0Number |
| 29 | Latvia | 54.0Number |
| 30 | Liechtenstein | 46.0Number |
| 31 | Cyprus | 31.0Number |
| 32 | Malta | 30.0Number |
| 33 | Serbia | 27.0Number |
| 34 | Albania | 8.0Number |
| 35 | Montenegro | 7.0Number |
| 36 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4.0Number |
| 37 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 1.0Number |
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Data Source
This data comes from Eurostat, European Commission (2025).
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