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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.

Source: Eurostat, European Commission37 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
2,106.6Number
Median: 201.0Number
Countries Covered
37
with available data
Highest
Germany
25,669.0Number
Lowest
The Republic of North Macedonia
1.0Number
Top 5 Countries
1Germany25,669.0Number
2France11,241.0Number
3Netherlands6,826.0Number
4Switzerland6,074.0Number
5Italy5,524.0Number
By Region
Europe2,571.6Number(30 countries)
Other113.9Number(7 countries)
Key Findings
  • 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

Low (1.0Number)High (25,669.0Number)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 2,106.6Number)

Europe (30)
Other (7)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

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
1Germany25,669.0Number
2France11,241.0Number
3Netherlands6,826.0Number
4Switzerland6,074.0Number
5Italy5,524.0Number
6Sweden4,203.0Number
7Denmark2,901.0Number
8Spain2,631.0Number
9Belgium2,625.0Number
10Austria2,537.0Number
11Finland2,105.0Number
12Poland901.0Number
13Ireland760.0Number
14Norway750.0Number
15Türkiye701.0Number
16Portugal424.0Number
17Czech Republic394.0Number
18Hungary276.0Number
19Slovenia201.0Number
20Greece161.0Number
21Luxembourg161.0Number
22Romania148.0Number
23Slovakia119.0Number
24Lithuania93.0Number
25Bulgaria85.0Number
26Estonia78.0Number
27Iceland78.0Number
28Croatia72.0Number
29Latvia54.0Number
30Liechtenstein46.0Number
31Cyprus31.0Number
32Malta30.0Number
33Serbia27.0Number
34Albania8.0Number
35Montenegro7.0Number
36Bosnia and Herzegovina4.0Number
37The Republic of North Macedonia1.0Number
Showing 37 of 37 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from Eurostat, European Commission (2025).

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