Governance & Integrity

Digital Government & Service Delivery

The capacity to deliver the state's work through channels people can actually use: digital services, one-stop platforms and the delivery machinery that carries every domain's services to citizens and firms. One of the capabilities of Government Effectiveness & Public Administration.

International families: 4,8472015 to 2024
Leading country: China1.1× the next
All families: 72khome filings included
Over five years: Rising2020 to 2024 against the five before

Year by year

Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.

Volume

International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Share by country

Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Country leaderboard

International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.

Ten largest

China

United States

Japan

South Korea

India

Germany

Taiwan

France

Canada

United Kingdom

1,145

1,011

885

814

100


1	China	1,145	23.6%	2.4×	54,072
2	United States	1,011	20.9%	1.2×	2,632
3	Japan	885	18.3%	2.4×	3,596
4	South Korea	814	16.8%	1.9×	10,228
5	India	100	2.1%	2.4×	147
6	Germany	99	2.0%	1.1×	169
7	Taiwan	86	1.8%	1.8×	259
8	France	83	1.7%	1.1×	126
9	Canada	78	1.6%	1.7×	131
10	United Kingdom	64	1.3%	1.1×	98
11	Australia	56	1.2%	1.1×	102
12	Singapore	38	0.8%	1.7×	41
13	Netherlands	32	0.7%	1.1×	45
14	Switzerland	30	0.6%	1.3×	45
15	Türkiye	30	0.6%	5.0×	62
16	Israel	27	0.6%	0.7×	52
17	Cayman Islands	23	0.5%	0.0×	23
18	Italy	22	0.5%	0.6×	40
19	Sweden	20	0.4%	0.8×	21
20	Hong Kong	16	0.3%	0.8×	20
21	Ireland	12	0.2%	0.7×	23
22	Spain	11	0.2%	1.8×	18
23	Malaysia	11	0.2%	0.6×	14
24	Belgium	10	0.2%	1.5×	17
25	Brazil	10	0.2%	1.0×	39
26	South Africa	10	0.2%	1.0×	10
27	Finland	9	0.2%	2.0×	13
28	Denmark	8	0.2%	1.0×	8
29	Saudi Arabia	8	0.2%	1.7×	18
30	Russia	7	0.1%	6.0×	17
31	Poland	7	0.1%	0.8×	12
32	Austria	5	0.1%	1.5×	6
33	New Zealand	5	0.1%	–	8
34	Luxembourg	5	0.1%	0.7×	5
35	Norway	4	0.1%	0.3×	4
36	Czechia	2	0.0%	1.0×	2
37	Mexico	2	0.0%	0.0×	6
38	Portugal	2	0.0%	–	3
39	Liechtenstein	1	0.0%	–	1
40	Hungary	1	0.0%	–	2

Applicants

The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Digital Government & Service Delivery. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

4,847 international families

NEC CORP · Japan

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP · Japan

TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD · Japan

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC · United States

CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECH CO LTD · China

HITACHI LTD · Japan

175

133

129

101

China

1,145 international families

CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECH CO LTD

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY & DEV CO LTD

UNIV SOUTHEAST

UNIV TSINGHUA

CHINA INST WATER RESOURCES & HYDROPOWER RES

United States

1,011 international families

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC

MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC

HONEYWELL INT INC

FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC

IBM

3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES CO

Japan

885 international families

NEC CORP

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP

TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD

HITACHI LTD

NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE

FUJITSU LTD

170

133

129

South Korea

814 international families

HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST

KIA CORP

KOREA INST OCEAN SCI & TECH

LG ELECTRONICS INC

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

India

Japan

South Korea

China

Canada

584

369

224

199

Strategic Infrastructure

2.5% shared · 218 families in both

Japan

United States

South Korea

China

Germany

1,038

891

663

294

154

Crosswalk

How Digital Government & Service Delivery is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 1 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.

Entry	Title in the scheme	Why it is chosen	CPC codes	IPC codes	Documents
G06Q50/26	Government or public services	Software for government and public services	1	1	138,046
G06Q50/265	Personal security, identity or safety	Left out

CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.

The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Digital Government & Service Delivery: 1 codes on 96,471 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G06Q50/26	Government or public services	G06Q50/26	In the scheme	96,471

Match: Through its tools

The classification names the equipment or technology the capability draws on, not the capability. The count says how much is being invented for it, not how well it is done. Captures software for public services, including much Chinese city-management and public-safety software; personal safety and identity software is excluded in CPC only. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Other capabilities in Government Effectiveness & Public Administration

Centre of Government & Policy Coordination
Civil Service & Public Workforce
Legal Identity & Civil Registration
Statistical & Data Capability