Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$) - Country Ranking - Europe

Definition: Charges for the use of intellectual property are payments and receipts between residents and nonresidents for the authorized use of proprietary rights (such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial processes and designs including trade secrets, and franchises) and for the use, through licensing agreements, of produced originals or prototypes (such as copyrights on books and manuscripts, computer software, cinematographic works, and sound recordings) and related rights (such as for live performances and television, cable, or satellite broadcast). Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Ireland 96,918,870,000.00 2020
2 Netherlands 42,767,670,000.00 2020
3 Switzerland 26,418,340,000.00 2020
4 United Kingdom 16,043,020,000.00 2020
5 Germany 16,026,250,000.00 2020
6 France 12,273,150,000.00 2020
7 Sweden 9,199,175,000.00 2020
8 Luxembourg 6,174,011,000.00 2021
9 Spain 5,122,068,000.00 2020
10 Italy 4,096,757,000.00 2020
11 Poland 3,534,000,000.00 2020
12 Belgium 3,211,793,000.00 2020
13 Turkey 2,646,000,000.00 2021
14 Denmark 1,654,793,000.00 2020
15 Austria 1,582,482,000.00 2020
16 Czech Republic 1,390,319,000.00 2020
17 Malta 1,291,451,000.00 2020
18 Hungary 1,268,742,000.00 2020
19 Finland 1,145,445,000.00 2021
20 Romania 886,842,400.00 2020
21 Portugal 886,755,600.00 2021
22 Norway 737,273,800.00 2020
23 Ukraine 735,000,000.00 2021
24 Slovak Republic 646,719,700.00 2020
25 Serbia 348,262,100.00 2020
26 Greece 320,133,700.00 2020
27 Croatia 310,919,500.00 2020
28 Slovenia 302,916,500.00 2021
29 Belarus 260,285,100.00 2021
30 Bulgaria 254,120,000.00 2020
31 Cyprus 235,854,500.00 2020
32 North Macedonia 167,142,000.00 2021
33 Lithuania 77,947,220.00 2020
34 Estonia 76,699,200.00 2021
35 Iceland 72,205,460.00 2020
36 Albania 38,609,320.00 2020
37 Latvia 37,741,490.00 2021
38 Moldova 26,640,000.00 2020
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13,746,880.00 2020
40 Montenegro 4,688,292.00 2021
41 Andorra 264,666.20 2019

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Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Note: Data are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) and are only available from 2005 onwards.