country             patents [1]     population [2]
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 1. China            59 045      1 433 783 686
 2. USA              57 705        329 064 917
 3. Japan            52 683        126 860 301
 4. Germany          19 337         83 517 045
 5. South Korea      19 076         51 225 308
 6. France            7 936         65 129 728
 7. UK                5 768         67 530 172
 8. Switzerland       4 620          8 591 365
 9. Sweden            4 196         10 036 379
10. Netherlands       4 044         17 097 130







[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/256845/ranking-of-the-10-countries-who-filed-the-most-international-patent-applications/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)