applications per million persons - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's patent applications was 1,121.1 applications per million persons as of January 2024. Standard patent applications filed in Australia in the calendar year, per million people (resident and non-resident applicants). Patent activity is a proxy for innovation output. Per capita normalization allows fair comparison over time. Data is sourced from World Bank / WIPO (IP.PAT.RESD + IP.PAT.NRES: patent applications by residents and nonresidents) divided by World Bank population. The WIPO counts match IP Australia's headline standard-patent figures (2024: 2,542 + 27,945 = 30,487). and updated annually.
Standard patent applications filed in Australia in the calendar year, per million people (resident and non-resident applicants).
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 (World Bank / WIPO (IP.PAT.RESD + IP.PAT.NRES: patent applications by residents and nonresidents) divided by World Bank population. The WIPO counts match IP Australia's headline standard-patent figures (2024: 2,542 + 27,945 = 30,487).), 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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