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MALAYSIA VS ASEAN · RESIDENT PATENTS · 2021
How many resident patent applications are filed per million people?
WIPO resident patent applications normalised by World Bank population, using 2021 observations only.
SHOW ME THE DATA2021 · resident patent applications · per 1 million people
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2021
1Singapore371.1resident patent applications · per 1 million people
2Malaysia25.8resident patent applications · per 1 million people
3Thailand12.1resident patent applications · per 1 million people
4Viet Nam10.8resident patent applications · per 1 million people
5Indonesia5resident patent applications · per 1 million people
6Brunei Darussalam4.4resident patent applications · per 1 million people
7Philippines4.3resident patent applications · per 1 million people
WAWWIPO and World Bankresident patent applications · per 1 million people
SourceWIPO and World Bank ↗2021 same-year normalisation · checked 3 Oct 2026HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
Malaysia is #2/7 in the verified 2021 ASEAN subset by resident patent applications per million people.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSHow the numbers were calculated
PulseKita requests World Bank indicators IP.PAT.RESD and SP.POP.TOTL for 2021, joins countries that have both values, and divides resident patent applications by population to produce applications per million people. Non-resident applications, patent grants and older years are not substituted.
- Malaysia records about 25.8 resident patent applications per million people in 2021 and ranks #2/7 among ASEAN members with both patent and population observations.
- Not shown for 2021: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Timor-Leste.
- Malaysia recorded 883 resident patent applications in the underlying 2021 World Bank/WIPO series before population normalisation.
- Patent applications are an invention-output signal, not a direct measure of patent quality, commercial value, granted patents or startup activity.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Declared sourcePatent applications, residents + Population, total
- 2TransformationPulseKita requests World Bank indicators IP.PAT.RESD and SP.POP.TOTL for 2021, joins countries that have both values, and divides resident patent applications by population to produce applications per million people. Non-resident applications, patent grants and older years are not substituted.
- 3Published visualRanked snapshot
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE2021
UNITresident patent applications · per 1 million people
SOURCEofficial publication
UPDATED2021 same-year normalisation · checked 3 Oct 2026