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Based on the WIPO statistics in 2012

This site is started on the occasion of the 7^th International Inventors' Day Celebration - 13 June 2014.

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Trend in domestic patent application worldwide in 2012

The growth of population in the world is pressure of increase of the new domestic inventions but that is the criterion too. Therefore the number of new inventions be on increase. year by year. But the word economy can influence the inventive activity as in 2002 or 2009. Ultimately the trend in domestic patent application worldwide is upgrade.

Domestic patent application (2013)

Nowadays there are near 2.5 million new domestic patent application worldwide. Remarkable change of the country sequence is China on the second position. Other difference compared the situation in the former Century is the Asia dominancy in the field of invention.

Sequence	Country	Invention
1	USA	490 226
2	China	391 177
3	Japan	344 598
4	Korea, South	170 101
5	Germany	59 245
6	Russian Federation	42 500
7	Canada	35 449
8	India	34 287
9	Australia	24 887
10	Brazil	22 686
11	United Kingdom	21 929
12	France	16 580
13	Mexico	14 576
14	China, Hong Kong	11 702
15	Singapore	9 773
16	Italy	9 619
17	Korea, North	8 057
18	Israel	7 306
19	New Zealand	6 636
20	Malaysia	6 463
21	South Africa	6 383
22	Indonesia	5 638
23	Ukraine	5 312
24	Argentina	4 717
25	Spain	3 779
26	Viet Nam	3 582
27	Poland	3 430
28	Philippines	3 393
29	Turkey	3 357
30	Netherlands	2 767
31	Austria	2 673
32	Sweden	2 549
33	Egypt	2 230
34	Switzerland	2 155
35	Thailand	1 937
36	Belarus	1 933
37	Colombia	1 872
38	Finland .	1 833
39	Norway	1 813
40	Denmark	1 768
41	Romania	1 418
42	Costa Rica	1 220
43	Pakistan	1 094
44	Chile	1 076
45	Morocco	1 034
46	Czech Republic	982
47	Saudi Arabia	931
48	Ireland	792
49	Uruguay	784
50	Belgium	760
51	Greece	744
52	Hungary	696
53	Ecuador	694
54	Uzbekistan	632
55	Portugal	545
56	Jordan	474
57	Panama	468
58	Sri Lanka	460
59	Slovenia	453
60	Guatemala	381
61	Paraguay	365
62	Georgia	359
63	Bangladesh	342
64	Dominican Republic	339
65	Serbia	329
66	Peru	300
67	Slovakia	282
68	Croatia	278
69	Bulgaria	260
70	Cuba	231
71	Algeria	230
72	Kenya	197
73	Latvia	185
74	Albania	183
75	Mongolia	179
76	Montenegro	159
77	Republic of Moldova	143
78	Armenia	142
79	Kyrgyzstan	140
80	Lithuania	114
81	Luxembourg	100
82	Estonia	97
83	Iceland	76
84	Yemen	75
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65
86	China, Macao	62
87	Madagascar	43
88	Brunei Darussalam	42
89	Malta	19
90	Mauritius	16
91	Monaco	11
92	Tajikistan	10
93	Cyprus	8
94	Burkina Faso	2

Innovation potential of countries (2013)

The innovation potential of a country is shown by the quotient of number of new domestic patent applications and country population in million. The top ten countries have very high innovation potential (3400-700). Then county 11 to 30 have moderate innovation potential (360-200) and the other countries' potential weak.

Sequence	Country	Innovation Potential	Invention	Population
1	Korea, South	3 402	170101	50
2	Japan	2 713	344598	127
3	Singapore	1 844	9773	5,3
4	China, Hong Kong	1 625	11702	7,2
5	USA	1 541	490226	318,1
6	New Zealand	1 475	6636	4,5
7	Australia	1 059	24887	23,5
8	Canada	1 004	35449	35,3
9	Israel	902	7306	8,1
10	Germany	734	59245	80,7
11	Monaco	367	11	0,03
12	Norway	355	1813	5,1
13	United Kingdom	344	21929	63,7
14	Finland .	339	1833	5,4
15	Korea, North	322	8057	25
16	Denmark	316	1768	5,6
17	Austria	314	2673	8,5
18	Russian Federation	297	42500	143
19	China	287	391177	1364
20	Switzerland	266	2155	8,1
21	Sweden	266	2549	9,6
22	Costa Rica	265	1220	4,6
23	Montenegro	265	159	0,6
24	Iceland	253	76	0,3
25	France	252	16580	65,9
26	Uruguay	245	784	3,2
27	Slovenia	227	453	2
28	Malaysia	215	6463	30
29	Belarus	206	1933	9,4
30	Luxembourg	200	100	0,5
31	Ireland	176	792	4,5
32	Netherlands	173	2767	16
33	Italy	160	9619	60
34	Brunei Darussalam	140	42	0,3
35	Panama	138	468	3,4
36	Mexico	122	14576	119
37	South Africa	121	6383	52,9
38	Ukraine	118	5312	45,1
39	Brazil	112	22686	202,6
40	Argentina	111	4717	42,6
41	China, Macao	103	62	0,6
42	Czech Republic	94	982	10,5
43	Latvia	93	185	2
44	Poland	90	3430	38
45	Georgia	82	359	4,4
46	Spain	81	3779	46,6
47	Estonia	75	97	1,3
48	Jordan	73	474	6,5
49	Hungary	71	696	9,8
50	Romania	71	1418	20
51	Greece	69	744	10,8
52	Belgium	68	760	11,1
53	Croatia	66	278	4,2
54	Albania	65	183	2,8
55	Mongolia	62	179	2,9
56	Chile	61	1076	17,6
57	Portugal	55	545	10
58	Paraguay	54	365	6,7
59	Slovakia	52	282	5,4
60	Malta	48	19	0,4
61	Armenia	47	142	3
62	Serbia	46	329	7,1
63	Ecuador	44	694	15,7
64	Turkey	44	3357	76,6
65	Moldova	41	143	3,5
66	Viet Nam	40	3582	89,7
67	Colombia	39	1872	47,6
68	Lithuania	39	114	2,9
69	Bulgaria	36	260	7,2
70	Philippines	34	3393	99
71	Saudi Arabia	32	931	29
72	Morocco	31	1034	33
73	Thailand	30	1937	64
74	India	28	34287	1244
75	Egypt	26	2230	86,5
76	Kyrgyzstan	25	140	5,7
77	Guatemala	24	381	15,8
78	Indonesia	23	5638	247
79	Sri Lanka	23	460	20,2
80	Uzbekistan	21	632	30
81	Cuba	21	231	11,1
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18	65	3,7
83	Mauritius	13	16	1,2
84	Peru	10	300	30
85	Cyprus	9	8	0,86
86	Algeria	6	230	38,7
87	Pakistan	6	1094	186
88	Dominican Republic	5	339	67,5
89	Kenya	4	197	44
90	Yemen	3	75	25
91	Bangladesh	2	342	152,5
92	Madagascar	2	43	21
93	Tajikistan	1	10	8,1
94	Burkina Faso	0	2	17,3

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