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🚢 Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments

Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$). World Bank World Development Indicators definition; latest common data year.

📅 2025📏 USD billion122 entries
Each tile’s area is its share of the combined total of $753.9B (118 entries). Stronger colour means a higher rank. The smallest 78 are merged into one grey tile.
1
🇮🇪Ireland
$209.5B
2
🇺🇸United States
$61.4B
3
🇨🇳China
$46.6B
4
🇳🇱Netherlands
$43.5B
5
🇨🇭Switzerland
$38.9B
6
🇯🇵Japan
$34.8B
7
🇩🇪Germany
$30.1B
8
🇬🇧United Kingdom
$30.1B
9
🇸🇪Sweden
$23.3B
10
🇸🇬Singapore
$20.7B
11
🇨🇦Canada
$20.2B
12
🇮🇳India
$18.8B
13
🇱🇺Luxembourg
$18.2B
14
🇫🇷France
$17.7B
15
🇰🇷South Korea
$14.1B
16
🇦🇺Australia
$12.4B
17
🇧🇷Brazil
$12.3B
18
🇪🇸Spain
$8.9B
19
🇮🇹Italy
$8.5B
20
🇲🇽Mexico
$7.7B
21
🇹🇭Thailand
$7.0B
22
🇵🇱Poland
$6.0B
23
🇹🇷Türkiye
$4.9B
24
🇧🇪Belgium
$3.8B
25
🇮🇱Israel
$3.7B
26
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
$3.7B
27
🇲🇾Malaysia
$2.7B
28
🇦🇹Austria
$2.6B
29
🇮🇩Indonesia
$2.5B
30
🇩🇰Denmark
$2.5B
31
🇷🇺Russia
$2.5B
32
🇨🇿Czechia
$2.5B
33
🇨🇴Colombia
$2.2B
34
🇦🇷Argentina
$2.2B
35
🇿🇦South Africa
$1.7B
36
🇭🇺Hungary
$1.7B
37
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
$1.7B
38
🇨🇱Chile
$1.6B
39
🇷🇴Romania
$1.4B
40
🇨🇷Costa Rica
$1.2B
41
🇨🇾Cyprus
$1.2B
42
🇫🇮Finland
$1.1B
43
🇳🇿New Zealand
$1.1B
44
🇵🇹Portugal
$1.1B
45
🇷🇸Serbia
$1.0B
46
🇸🇰Slovakia
$0.8B
47
🇵🇪Peru
$0.7B
48
🇬🇹Guatemala
$0.6B
49
🇬🇭Ghana
$0.6B
50
🇺🇦Ukraine
$0.6B

Highlights

As of 2025, Ireland ranks first with $209.5B, followed by United States ($61.4B) and China ($46.6B).

Ireland is 3.4 times higher than United States, the runner-up.

Across 122 countries and territories, values run from $209.5B (Ireland) to $0.0B (Uganda), with a median of $0.3B.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 3 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$), 2025. Unit: USD billion.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026