Data · Technology & digital transformation
Patent applications, residents: Vietnam, 1984–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 1,226 applications
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- IP.PAT.RESD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1984 to 2024 (39 years of data). It moved from 52 to 1,226 applications, a change of 2,257.7%. The highest value was 1,226 in 2024 and the lowest 7 in 1986. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 8 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (applications) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,226 |
| 2023 | 991 |
| 2022 | 895 |
| 2021 | 1,066 |
| 2020 | 1,021 |
| 2019 | 720 |
| 2018 | 646 |
| 2017 | 592 |
| 2016 | 560 |
| 2015 | 582 |
| 2014 | 487 |
| 2013 | 443 |
| 2012 | 382 |
| 2011 | 300 |
| 2010 | 306 |
| 2009 | 258 |
| 2008 | 204 |
| 2007 | 219 |
| 2006 | 196 |
| 2005 | 180 |
| 2004 | 103 |
| 2003 | 78 |
| 2002 | 69 |
| 2001 | 52 |
| 2000 | 34 |
| 1999 | 35 |
| 1998 | 25 |
| 1997 | 30 |
| 1996 | 37 |
| 1995 | 23 |
| 1994 | 22 |
| 1993 | 32 |
| 1992 | 34 |
| 1991 | 37 |
| 1990 | 58 |
| 1989 | 46 |
| 1988 | 20 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1984 | 52 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 1,226 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 930 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 1,931 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 841 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 873 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 1,898 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 1 |
| Laos | 2023 | 1 |
| China | 2024 | 1,672,001 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Patent applications, residents, Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IP.PAT.RESD?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ip_pat_resd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.