European patent applications in Serbia
Applicants in Serbia filed 2.0 European patent applications per million people in 2025.
The latest value carries the source flag “Provisional”.
Serbia, 2025
2.0p (Provisional)
Change from 2024
−1.1per million people
European Union, 2025
152.6 per million peopleep (Source flag ep)
Position in 2025
35th of 36
European patent applications in Serbia 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 | Serbia | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.0 per million peoplep (provisional) | 152.6 per million peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2024 | 3.0 per million people | 151.8 per million peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2023 | 2.1 per million people | 153.1 per million peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2022 | 1.9 per million people | 151.2 per million peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2021 | 2.9 per million people | 152.1 per million peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2020 | 1.2 per million people | 147.6 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2019 | 1.3 per million people | 148.9 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2018 | 1.3 per million people | 148.4 per million peoplee (estimated) |
| 2017 | 1.4 per million people | 143.6 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2016 | 0.2 per million people | 139.7 per million peoplee (estimated) |
| 2015 | 0.6 per million people | 141.2 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2014 | 1.6 per million people | 141.5 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2013 | 1.5 per million people | 138.1 per million peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2012 | 0.7 per million people | 136.9 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2011 | 0.8 per million peopleb (break in time series) | 135.2 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2010 | 1.1 per million people | 138.7 per million peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2009 | 0.6 per million people | 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; p provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of −1.1 from 3.0 per million people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 0.6 per million people, the figure has changed by +1.4.
- Among the 36 countries with data for 2025, Serbia has the 35th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 152.6 per million people.
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