El Salvador: Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, El Salvador's industrial design applications, nonresident, by count fell 9.5% on 2023 (from 21 to 19).

Across the 11 yearly changes before that (2013 to 2023), the average change was +0.5% and a typical year strayed about 32.3% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 69.6% in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.4% in 2023. 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 17% of the movement over 10 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, El Salvador had the 100th 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 El Salvador in the 2024 ranking

• Dominican Republic — 97th of 104: 29
• Ireland — 98th of 104: 29
• Honduras — 99th of 104: 23
• Madagascar — 101st of 104: 5
• Cuba — 102nd of 104: 4
• Barbados — 103rd of 104: 2

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 13 values

Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count in nearby economies

• Argentina — 902 (2024)
• Barbados — 2 (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)
• Guatemala

More infrastructure data for El Salvador

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 885,101 (2024)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 13.96 (2024)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 25,109 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 3.26 million (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 27.8 (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 11.19 million (2024)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 176.52 (2024)
• Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 17.88% (2024)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$455.27 million (2025)

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Questions people ask

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

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

How has it changed since 2012?

It is down 40.63% from 32 in 2012 (4.25% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 39 in 2017 and the lowest 19 in 2024.

How does El Salvador rank?

100th highest of 104 economies with data for 2024.

Is the latest change in industrial design applications, nonresident, by count unusual for El Salvador?

In 2024, El Salvador's industrial design applications, nonresident, by count fell 9.5% on 2023 (from 21 to 19). Across the 11 yearly changes before that (2013 to 2023), the average change was +0.5% and a typical year strayed about 32.3% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

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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