Infrastructure · Jamaica
Yearly data from 1983 to 2024, from the World Bank.
Jamaica's patent applications, residents was 3 in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 90.91% from 33 in 2014 (21.32% a year on average, compounded).
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3 | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 14 | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 33 | 2014 |
| Highest | 33 | 2014 |
| Lowest | 2 | 1996 |
| Average since 2015 | 11.6 | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 15 | 1983 |
Over five years it is down 78.57% from 14 in 2019 (26.52% a year on average, compounded). Since 1983 it is down 80% from 15 in 1983 (3.85% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 6 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
In 2024, Jamaica's patent applications, residents rose 50% on 2023 (from 2 to 3).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2023), the average change was +29.5% and a typical year strayed about 102.7% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above 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 350% in 1997 and the biggest yearly fall was 78.8% in 2015. 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 26% 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.
In 2024, Jamaica had the 107th highest value of the 113 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Jamaica | 3 | 2024 |
| World | 2.7 million | 2024 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 8,458 | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 1.71 million | 2024 |
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.
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.
| Year | Patent applications, residents |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2018 | 26 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2014 | 33 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2006 | 21 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2001 | 4 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 1999 | no data |
| 1998 | no data |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1990 | 4 |
| 1989 | no data |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1987 | 3 |
| 1986 | no data |
| 1985 | no data |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1983 | 15 |
Every indicator for Jamaica is on the Jamaica data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator IP.PAT.RESD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: WIPO Patent Report: Statistics on Worldwide Patent Activity, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 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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