European patent applications in European Union
Applicants in the European Union filed 152.6 European patent applications per million people in 2025.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
The latest value carries the source flag “Source flag ep”.
European Union, 2025
152.6ep (Source flag ep)
Change from 2024
+0.8per million people
European patent applications in European Union over time
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Applications per million inhabitants. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 152.6 per million peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2024 | 151.8 per million peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2023 | 153.1 per million peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2022 | 151.2 per million peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2021 | 152.1 per million peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2020 | 147.6 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2019 | 148.9 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2018 | 148.4 per million peoplee (estimated) |
| 2017 | 143.6 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2016 | 139.7 per million peoplee (estimated) |
| 2015 | 141.2 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2014 | 141.5 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2013 | 138.1 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2012 | 136.9 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2011 | 135.2 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2010 | 138.7 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2009 | 129.5 per million people |
| 2008 | 137.4 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2007 | 130.6 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2006 | 126.4 per million people |
| 2005 | 123.5 per million people |
| 2004 | 118.8 per million people |
Flags: b break in time series; be break in time series, estimated; e estimated; bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.8 from 151.8 per million people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 141.2 per million people, the figure has changed by +11.3.
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