East Asia & Pacific: Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, East Asia & Pacific's industrial design applications, nonresident, by count rose 9.5% on 2023 (from 63,788 to 69,818).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +11% and a typical year strayed about 13.2% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 43.8% in 2004 and the biggest yearly fall was 22.5% in 2009. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1,940 a year. A straight line explains 85% of the movement over 10 observed years.

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

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 73,152 for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 2,055, against 5,005 for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

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 45 values

Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count in nearby economies

• Algeria — 194 (2024)
• Bahrain — 164 (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 1,016 (2024)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 132 (2024)
• Israel — 1,540 (2024)
• Jordan — 56 (2024)
• Malta — 1 (2022)
• Morocco — 1,392 (2024)
• Oman — 1,185 (2024)
• Pakistan

More infrastructure data for East Asia & Pacific

• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 3.24 billion (2025)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 135.1 (2025)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 288 million (2025)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 12 (2025)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 9.79 million (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 71,444 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 1.28 billion (2023)
• Industrial design applications, resident, by count — 896,232 (2024)
• Patent applications, nonresidents

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Questions people ask

What is East Asia & Pacific's industrial design applications, nonresident, by count?

69,818 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1980?

It is up 5,976% from 1,149 in 1980 (9.78% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 69,818 in 2024 and the lowest 1,139 in 1981.

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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