applications per million persons - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's patent applications was 1,100 applications per million persons as of January 2025. Total standard patent applications filed in Australia per million population. Patent activity is a proxy for innovation output. Per capita normalization allows fair comparison over time. Data is sourced from IP Australia; WIPO IP Statistics and updated annually.
Total standard patent applications filed in Australia per million population.
Patent activity is a proxy for innovation output. Per capita normalization allows fair comparison over time.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (IP Australia; WIPO IP Statistics), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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