Patent applications, residents
Patent applications filed by residents with a national patent office or through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure, for exclusive rights for an invention — a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem, generally protected for 20 years. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the WIPO Patent Report (Statistics on Worldwide Patent Activity); WIPO assumes no responsibility for the transformation of these data. Counts are by filing office, so a country's figure reflects applications filed at its own office, not its inventors' filings worldwide. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2021; WIPO data lag about two years behind the present, and values are null where national statistics are unavailable. Units: patent applications (count).
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- technology
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: patent applications) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 4,187 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 3,963 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 3,959 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 3,929 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 5,231 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 5,183 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 5,522 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 4,998 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 5,061 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 5,067 |
Profiled Sep 23, 2026 from snapshot 20260923T213018Z-ad100dacabcc
Measured- Completeness
- 96.2%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 15.4% | 161 | 2,206 → 1,426,644median 25,807 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
20260923T213018Z-ad100dacabcc · sha256 ad100dacabcc…
208 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/patent_applications_residents" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/patent_applications_residents").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/patent_applications_residents
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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World Bank. (2026). Patent applications, residents [Data set, snapshot 20260923T213018Z-ad100dacabcc, sha256 ad100dacabcc]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/patent_applications_residents?snapshot=20260923T213018Z-ad100dacabcc
@misc{dz_world_bank_patent_applications_residents_ad100dac,
title = {{Patent applications, residents}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/patent_applications_residents?snapshot=20260923T213018Z-ad100dacabcc}},
note = {Snapshot 20260923T213018Z-ad100dacabcc, sha256 ad100dacabccd209e146b3f171c249dcc877977da604fb6d334ae25bdcb545f4; accessed 2026-09-24}
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