PCT International Applications by Residence of First Applicant

All Countries of Origin

Code	Country of Origin	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006 estimate
AD	Andorra	3	4	2	3	3
AE	United Arab Emirates	6	6	17	24	12
AM	Armenia	5	2	2	3	7
AN	Netherlands Antilles	1		2	2	11
AR	Argentina	9	15	11	21	15
AT	Austria	552	644	709	851	815
AU	Australia	1,759	1,680	1,837	1,998	2,139
AZ	Azerbaijan	1	6	5	3	9
BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	7	3	7	8
BB	Barbados	123	192	243	205	40
BE	Belgium	696	776	831	1,073	897
BG	Bulgaria	31	45	24	21	21
BM	Bermuda	1	3	10	4	5
BN	Brunei Darussalam	1			7	1
BR	Brazil	201	219	278	280	265
BS	Bahamas	17	15	21	29	16
BY	Belarus	11	16	26	22	13
BZ	Belize	2	3	9	5	2
CA	Canada	2,260	2,270	2,105	2,320	2,532
CH	Switzerland	2,755	2,861	2,899	3,276	3,403
CL	Chile	6	9	6	9	8
CN	China	1,018	1,295	1,706	2,493	3,910
CO	Colombia	36	24	22	23	23
CR	Costa Rica	4	6	6	4	4
CU	Cuba	11	20	18	11	16
CY	Cyprus	23	28	43	30	44
CZ	Czech Republic	73	83	95	117	86
DE	Germany	14,326	14,662	15,218	16,002	16,929
DK	Denmark	979	1,036	1,049	1,122	999
DZ	Algeria	3	5	6	4	3
EC	Ecuador	2	5	9	1	9
EE	Estonia	11	8	12	13	15
EG	Egypt	1	22	53	51	41
ES	Spain	719	785	823	1,125	980
FI	Finland	1,762	1,557	1,672	1,890	1,915
FR	France	5,089	5,171	5,185	5,741	5,902
GB	United Kingdom	5,376	5,206	5,026	5,085	5,045
GE	Georgia	9	3	3	4	10
GR	Greece	75	67	79	55	83
HR	Croatia	69	72	76	71	61
HU	Hungary	185	114	136	161	111
ID	Indonesia	16	2	6	8	6
IE	Ireland	308	311	322	336	371
IL	Israel	1,174	1,130	1,227	1,458	1,725
IN	India	525	764	724	679	627
IS	Iceland	39	58	46	44	40
IT	Italy	1,982	2,163	2,189	2,345	2,723
JO	Jordan	2			2	6
JP	Japan	14,063	17,414	20,263	24,841	26,906
KE	Kenya	1	2	7	6	4
KP	Democratic People's Republic of Korea		3	3	3	4
KR	Republic of Korea	2,520	2,949	3,558	4,688	5,935
KY	Cayman Islands		2	9	5	9
KZ	Kazakhstan	16	7	7	7	13
LI	Liechtenstein	52	55	47	70	75
LT	Lithuania	10	4	9	7	9
LU	Luxembourg	143	117	125	117	105
LV	Latvia	10	12	12	16	11
MC	Monaco	13	17	16	13	9
MD	Republic of Moldova	1	2	3	5	5
MO	Morocco	10	7	7	9	7
MT	Malta	6	3	3	8	12
MU	Mauritius	5	5	12	3	3
MX	Mexico	132	131	118	141	150
MY	Malaysia	18	31	45	38	54
NL	Netherlands	3,977	4,479	4,285	4,516	4,393
NO	Norway	549	533	476	584	521
NZ	New Zealand	300	300	338	350	316
PA	Panama	7	16	14	16	15
PH	Philippines	20	21	11	26	15
PL	Poland	116	154	107	96	88
PT	Portugal	34	36	49	55	61
RO	Romania	25	16	18	15	18
RU	Russian Federation	539	586	518	655	483
SA	Saudi Arabia	10	28	31	39	45
SC	Seychelles		3	11	2	11
SD	Sudan	1	2	4	6	2
SE	Sweden	2,990	2,612	2,850	2,873	3,123
SG	Singapore	330	282	430	442	402
SI	Slovenia	44	65	62	86	69
SK	Slovakia	26	26	26	32	26
SM	San Marino	4	3		3	4
SY	Syrian Arab Republic			5	4	8
TH	Thailand	9	7	12	9	12
TN	Tunisia	6	5	5	9	3
TR	Turkey	85	111	115	174	186
UK	Ukraine	75	58	89	59	65
US	United States of America	41,296	41,028	43,350	46,697	49,555
UY	Uruguay	9	11	5	5	2
VG	Virgin Islands, British	2	2	11	18	10
VN	Viet Nam	2	7	2		9
YU	Serbia and Montenegro	30	34	29	36	25
ZA	South Africa	384	357	411	360	349
**	Unknown and others	260	286	325	320	269
Total		110,392	115,199	122,624	136,500	145,300