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Resident Patent Applications Report — free sample

Generated: 2026-09-21T08:15:35.200Z | Range: 2015–2025 | Source: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0)

Key findings

This report covers 3 economies and 1 indicator over 2015–2025, containing 21 published observations (64% of the 33 requested year × economy cells). Every figure is reproduced from World Bank Open Data and recomputed into growth, share, trend-fit, momentum, volatility, concentration and data-quality views. Values are also available as JSON and CSV from the same endpoint.

Indicator	Rank 1	Latest value	CAGR / period avg	Trend	Economies	Latest yr
Patent applications, residents	China	1.43M	+6.7%	+4.7%	3	2021

Patent applications, residents

China ranks first at 1.43M, 74.6% of the group total. Fastest compound growth over the period is China at +6.7% per year; the slowest is Japan at -2.5%. Fitted trend is steepest upward in China (+4.7%, per year of its own mean level, R² 0.69) and weakest in Japan (-2.8%, R² 0.843). Largest acceleration — last three years against the three before — is United States at -2.4% percentage points. Concentration is high (HHI 0.590, equivalent to 1.7 evenly sized economies). The largest covered value is 6.4× the smallest. 3 economies covered; latest observation year 2021.

Trend index (2015 = 100)

Share of group total, latest year

Ranked detail

Group total (latest year): 1.91M across 3 economies. Group median: 262,244. Average period CAGR of the group: +0.9%. Cross-sectional dispersion: 107.4% of the group mean.

#	Economy	Latest	Share	Index	CAGR	Pctile
1	China	1.43M	74.6%	147	+6.7%	100
2	United States	262,244	13.7%	91	-1.6%	67
3	Japan	222,452	11.6%	86	-2.5%	33

Index = latest value as a percentage of the first year (100 = unchanged; blank for series that cross zero). CAGR is compound annual growth. Percentile ranks this economy within the covered group.

Trend and dynamics

Economy	Trend %/yr	Trend R²	Momentum	Half-period shift	Volatility	Latest YoY	Peak / trough yr	Outlier years
China	+4.7%	0.69	-12.1%	-12.1%	11.5	+6.1%	2021 / 2015	—
United States	-1.8%	0.75	-2.4%	-2.4%	2.8	-2.7%	2016 / 2021	—
Japan	-2.8%	0.84	-3.6%	-3.6%	2.8	-2.1%	2017 / 2021	—

Trend is the ordinary-least-squares fit of value on year, reported with its R² — how much of the movement the straight line explains, as a percentage of the period mean level so economies of different size are comparable. Momentum is the mean change of the last three years minus the mean of the three before it, in percentage points. Half-period shift compares the second half of the window against the first. Volatility is the standard deviation of year-over-year change. Outlier years exceed 2.5 standard deviations from that economy's own average change.

Data quality

Economy	Published	Expected	Coverage	Span	Missing years
China	7	11	64%	2015–2021	—
United States	7	11	64%	2015–2021	—
Japan	7	11	64%	2015–2021	—

Full year-by-year data

Economy	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
China	968,252	1.20M	1.25M	1.39M	1.24M	1.34M	1.43M
United States	288,335	295,327	293,904	285,095	285,113	269,586	262,244
Japan	258,839	260,244	260,292	253,630	245,372	227,348	222,452

MethodologySeries are pulled from the official source API and null observations dropped. CAGR = (end/start)^(1/years) − 1. Index uses the first year of the range as 100. Trend is an OLS fit of value on year, reported as a percentage of the period mean alongside its R². Volatility = standard deviation of year-over-year percentage change (percentage points). Momentum compares the last three years against the three before. Share = economy value ÷ sum of the covered economies. HHI = sum of squared shares; its reciprocal estimates the number of evenly sized economies. Cross-indicator correlation is Pearson's r on pooled year-over-year changes.
CoverageRequested: 1 indicator(s) × 3 economies × 11 years = 33 cells; published: 21 (63.6%). Sparse indicators are declared in the Data quality section of each indicator.
FormatsThis document is the HTML delivery. Append ?format=json for the full structured payload (series plus every derived metric) or ?format=csv for the tidy long-format panel. The JSON schema is published at /schema/report.json.
LicenceData © World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), attribution required. Generated by an automated pipeline; research reference only, not investment advice.
DisclaimerValues are reproduced as published by the source; some years may be estimates, nowcasts or subsequently revised figures. Correlations are descriptive statistics, not causal claims.