Patents Per Million Population - Europe and the Independent States
table below gives the number of patents granted per million people for all countries
of Europe and the Confederation of Independent States.
Patents Granted Per Million Population, 1998 (1)
| Country | Patents |
|
Albania
|
-
|
|
Andorra
|
-
|
|
Armenia
|
8
|
|
Austria
|
165
|
|
Azerbaijan
|
-
|
|
Belarus
|
50
|
|
Belgium
|
72
|
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
-
|
|
Bulgaria
|
23
|
|
Croatia
|
9
|
|
Cyprus
|
-
|
|
Czech Republic
|
28
|
|
Denmark
|
52
|
|
Estonia
|
1
|
|
Finland
|
187
|
|
France
|
205
|
|
Georgia
|
67
|
|
Germany
|
235
|
|
Greece
|
-
|
|
Hungary
|
26
|
|
Ireland
|
106
|
|
Italy
|
13
|
|
Kazakhstan
|
55
|
|
Kyrgyz Republic
|
14
|
|
Latvia
|
71
|
|
Lithuania
|
27
|
|
Luxembourg
|
202
|
|
Macedonia
|
19
|
|
Malta
|
18
|
|
Moldova
|
42
|
|
Netherlands
|
189
|
|
Norway
|
103
|
|
Poland
|
30
|
|
Portugal
|
6
|
|
Romania
|
71
|
|
Russia
|
131
|
|
Slovak Republic
|
24
|
|
Slovenia
|
105
|
|
Spain
|
42
|
|
Sweden
|
271
|
|
Switzerland
|
183
|
|
Tajikistan
|
2
|
|
Turkmenistan
|
10
|
|
Ukraine
|
84
|
|
United Kingdom
|
82
|
|
Uzbekistan
|
25
|
|
Yugoslavia
|
-
|
Footnotes:
1. United Nations. Human Development Report 2001.
pp.48-50.

The Patents Per Million Population - Europe and the Independent States by Brian Carnell, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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