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Each invention is counted once and attributed to the country where it was first filed, not the inventor's nationality.","descriptionProcessing":"We calculate regional and global totals from the country-level data CSET provides, following our [region definitions](https://ourworldindata.org/world-region-map-definitions). Countries that are not covered by the source are excluded from these totals. We do not show Africa's regional total. The source covers too few African countries to produce a meaningful aggregate.","type":"int","datasetName":"Country Activity Tracker: Artificial Intelligence","updatePeriodDays":180,"datasetVersion":"2026-04-27","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"applications","numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"attributionShort":"CSET","topicTagsLinks":["Artificial Intelligence"]},"descriptionKey":["The data covers patents for AI-related inventions filed at patent offices around the world.","Patents are counted by family — a group of documents that describe the same invention. Inventors often file the same invention in several countries, so this avoids double-counting.","A family counts as a granted patent if any of its documents has been granted, and as an application if all are still pending.","Each family is assigned to the country where it was first filed. If an invention is filed at the European Patent Office and then in China, it counts only towards the European Patent Office.","The data shows where patents are filed, not where inventors are based. Filing location is a proxy for where inventors expect to develop, make, or sell their inventions.","Patent data has a lag because some offices take years to publish new filings. Recent years are excluded here."],"origins":[{"id":14419,"title":"Country Activity Tracker: Artificial Intelligence","description":"ETO's Country AI Activity Metrics dataset includes national-level metrics for AI-related research, patents, and private-market investment.\n\nThe metrics are derived from a variety of underlying data sources, including ETO's Merged Academic Corpus for research data; The Lens, PATSTAT, and 1790 Analytics for patents; and Crunchbase for company and investment data.\n\nThe dataset focuses on countries, not organizations or individuals, and on AI and its subfields. There are many ways to assess countries' AI activities, and the three types of metrics included here, while meaningful, are not exhaustive. The data also has a lag, making counts incomplete for recent years; the lag is especially significant for patent data.","producer":"Center for Security and Emerging Technology","citationFull":"Emerging Technology Observatory [Country Activity Tracker: Artificial Intelligence](https://cat.eto.tech/?expanded=Summary-metrics)","attributionShort":"CSET","urlMain":"https://cat.eto.tech/","urlDownload":"https://zenodo.org/records/19103157/files/cat.zip?download=1","dateAccessed":"2026-04-27","datePublished":"2026-03-19","license":{"url":"https://eto.tech/tou/","name":"CC BY-NC 4.0"}}]}