Barbados: Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count

Key figures

Over five years it is up 100% from 1 in 2019 (14.87% a year on average, compounded). Since 1999 it is down 60% from 5 in 1999 (3.6% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 4 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 500% in 2005 and the biggest yearly fall was 90.9% in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 1% of the movement over 8 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2024, Barbados had the 103rd highest value of the 104 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Barbados in the 2024 ranking

• El Salvador — 100th of 104: 19
• Madagascar — 101st of 104: 5
• Cuba — 102nd of 104: 4
• Trinidad and Tobago — 104th of 104: 1

What this measures

Industrial design applications are applications to register an industrial design with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) offices and designations received by relevant offices through the Hague System. Non-resident application refers to an application filed with the IP office of or acting on behalf of a state or jurisdiction in which the first-named applicant in the application is not domiciled. Design count is used to render application data for industrial applications across offices comparable, as some offices follow a single-class/single-design filing system while other have a multiple class/design filing system.

Limitations: Data are based on information supplied to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) by IP offices in annual surveys, supplemented by data in national IP office reports. Data may be missing for some offices or periods.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.

All 22 values

Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count in nearby economies

• Argentina — 902 (2024)
• Brazil — 3,880 (2024)
• Chile — 592 (2024)
• Colombia — 424 (2024)
• Costa Rica — 85 (2024)
• Cuba — 4 (2024)
• Dominican Republic — 29 (2024)
• Ecuador — 88 (2024)
• El Salvador — 19 (2024)
• Guatemala

More infrastructure data for Barbados

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 121,314 (2022)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 42.97 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 323,482 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 114.58 (2022)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$3.44 million (2017)
• ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) — 0.23% (2017)
• Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 25.88% (2024)
• Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — 70.36% (2024)
• Scientific and technical journal articles — 56.79 (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Barbados's industrial design applications, nonresident, by count?

2 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1999?

It is down 60% from 5 in 1999 (3.6% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 11 in 2003 and the lowest 1 in 2004.

How does Barbados rank?

103rd highest of 104 economies with data for 2024.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Statistics Database, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), uri: www.wipo.int/ipstats/, note: The International Bureau of WIPO assumes no responsibility with respect to the transformation of these data..

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator IP.IDS.NRCT, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Statistics Database, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), uri: www.wipo.int/ipstats/, note: The International Bureau of WIPO assumes no responsibility with respect to the transformation of these data. Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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