Human Capital

Mental Health & Wellbeing

The capacity of the population to live in good mental health, and to be reached when they are not. One of the capabilities of Population Health.

International families: 16k2015 to 2024
Leading country: United States1.9× the next
All families: 47khome filings included
Over five years: Steady2020 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

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Netherlands

Canada

Switzerland

5,106

2,712

1,646

1,455

591

485

414

396

394

380


1	United States	5,106	31.3%	1.1×	7,907
2	Japan	2,712	16.6%	0.9×	5,864
3	China	1,646	10.1%	1.4×	19,950
4	South Korea	1,455	8.9%	1.6×	5,485
5	Germany	591	3.6%	0.9×	1,155
6	United Kingdom	485	3.0%	1.1×	591
7	France	414	2.5%	1.0×	530
8	Netherlands	396	2.4%	0.9×	433
9	Canada	394	2.4%	1.2×	500
10	Switzerland	380	2.3%	1.1×	418
11	Israel	354	2.2%	1.2×	455
12	Taiwan	254	1.6%	1.1×	386
13	Australia	246	1.5%	1.2×	319
14	India	217	1.3%	1.1×	280
15	Sweden	156	1.0%	0.9×	172
16	Belgium	151	0.9%	0.9×	167
17	Denmark	146	0.9%	0.6×	155
18	Italy	138	0.8%	1.0×	209
19	Ireland	130	0.8%	1.4×	145
20	Spain	121	0.7%	0.9×	143
21	Finland	90	0.6%	1.1×	113
22	Singapore	82	0.5%	1.7×	93
23	Russia	74	0.5%	0.4×	601
24	Türkiye	72	0.4%	3.5×	110
25	Poland	42	0.3%	1.0×	84
26	Austria	40	0.2%	0.4×	45
27	Hong Kong	35	0.2%	0.5×	49
28	Hungary	31	0.2%	0.6×	39
29	Brazil	30	0.2%	1.0×	90
30	New Zealand	30	0.2%	1.3×	38
31	Cayman Islands	26	0.2%	0.7×	27
32	Portugal	22	0.1%	2.1×	27
33	Malaysia	17	0.1%	1.4×	23
34	Czechia	16	0.1%	1.0×	17
35	Mexico	15	0.1%	0.7×	48
36	Norway	14	0.1%	0.3×	15
37	Saudi Arabia	7	0.0%	0.4×	26
38	South Africa	6	0.0%	1.0×	9
39	Luxembourg	6	0.0%	0.2×	12
40	Liechtenstein	2	0.0%	0.0×	3

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 Mental Health & Wellbeing. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

16,307 international families

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS NV · Netherlands

PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD · Japan

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD · South Korea

HOFFMANN LA ROCHE · Switzerland

UNIV CALIFORNIA · United States

NEC CORP · Japan

269

242

164

117

105

103

United States

5,106 international families

UNIV CALIFORNIA

SAGE THERAPEUTICS INC

UNIV VANDERBILT

FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC

INTRA CELLULAR THERAPIES INC

GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC

105

Japan

2,712 international families

PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD

NEC CORP

SONY GROUP CORP

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP

PANASONIC IP MAN CORP

SONY CORP

242

103

102

China

1,646 international families

HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

SHENZHEN INST OF ADV TECH CAS

BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD

SUNSHINE LAKE PHARMA CO LTD

JIANGSU NHWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD

SHANGHAI INST MATERIA MEDICA CAS

South Korea

1,455 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

KIA MOTORS CORP

KIA CORP

LG ELECTRONICS INC

UNIV KOREA RES & BUS FOUND

164

Germany

China

Japan

South Korea

Taiwan

1,468

1,054

1,039

901

207

Crosswalk

How Mental Health & Wellbeing is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 35 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
A61P25/18	Antipsychotics, i.e. neuroleptics; Drugs for mania or schizophrenia	Antipsychotic medicines	1	1	216,229
A61P25/22	Anxiolytics	Anti-anxiety medicines	1	1	158,254
A61P25/24	Antidepressants	Antidepressant medicines	1	1	240,819
A61P25/30	Drugs for disorders of the nervous system for treating abuse or dependence	Medicines for treating substance abuse or dependence	3	3	187,023
A61B5/16	Devices for psychotechnics; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state	Devices for evaluating psychological state	9	2	81,554
G16H20/70	ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training	Software for mental and psychological therapies	1	1	21,946
A61M21/00	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis	Devices inducing sleep, relaxation or changed consciousness	19	2	98,609
A61P25/34	Tobacco-abuse	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 Mental Health & Wellbeing: 35 codes on 1,004,434 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
A61P25/24	Antidepressants	A61P25/24	In the scheme	240,819
A61P25/18	Antipsychotics, i.e. neuroleptics; Drugs for mania or schizophrenia	A61P25/18	In the scheme	216,229
A61P25/22	Anxiolytics	A61P25/22	In the scheme	158,254
A61P25/30	Drugs for disorders of the nervous system for treating abuse or dependence	A61P25/30	In the scheme	87,785
A61P25/32	Alcohol-abuse	A61P25/30	In the scheme	52,015
A61P25/36	Opioid-abuse	A61P25/30	In the scheme	47,223
A61B5/165	Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety	A61B5/16	In the scheme	30,866
G16H20/70	ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training	G16H20/70	In the scheme	21,946
A61M21/02	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis for inducing sleep or relaxation, e.g. by direct nerve stimulation, hypnosis, analgesia	A61M21/00	In the scheme	19,444
A61M21/00	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis	A61M21/00	In the scheme	16,951
A61M2021/0027	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the hearing sense	A61M21/00	In the scheme	15,143
A61B5/18	Devices for psychotechnics; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state for vehicle drivers or machine operators	A61B5/16	In the scheme	14,054
A61B5/16	Devices for psychotechnics; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state	A61B5/16	In the scheme	13,531
A61M2021/0044	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the sight sense	A61M21/00	In the scheme	10,378
A61B5/163	Devices for psychotechnics; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state by tracking eye movement, gaze, or pupil change	A61B5/16	In the scheme	10,262
A61M2021/0022	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the tactile sense, e.g. vibrations	A61M21/00	In the scheme	8,700
A61B5/168	Evaluating attention deficit, hyperactivity	A61B5/16	In the scheme	6,095
A61M2021/0016	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the smell sense	A61M21/00	In the scheme	5,508
A61M2021/005	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the sight sense images, e.g. video	A61M21/00	In the scheme	5,084
A61B5/162	Testing reaction times	A61B5/16	In the scheme	3,604
A61M2021/0066	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus with heating or cooling	A61M21/00	In the scheme	3,447
A61M2021/0083	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus especially for waking up	A61M21/00	In the scheme	3,413
A61M2021/0072	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus with application of electrical currents	A61M21/00	In the scheme	2,695
A61M2021/0055	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus with electric or electro-magnetic fields	A61M21/00	In the scheme	1,990
A61B5/167	Personality evaluation	A61B5/16	In the scheme	1,639
A61M2021/0077	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus with application of chemical or pharmacological stimulus	A61M21/00	In the scheme	1,502
A61M2021/0088	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus modulated by a simulated respiratory frequency	A61M21/00	In the scheme	1,062
A61M21/0094	Isolation chambers used therewith, i.e. for isolating individuals from external stimuli	A61M21/00	In the scheme	1,036
A61B5/164	Lie detection	A61B5/16	In the scheme	949
A61M2021/0005	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus	A61M21/00	In the scheme	629
A61B5/161	Flicker fusion testing	A61B5/16	In the scheme	554
A61M2021/0061	Simulated heartbeat pulsed or modulated	A61M21/00	In the scheme	452
A61M2021/0011	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus in a subliminal way, i.e. below the threshold of sensation	A61M21/00	In the scheme	450
A61M2021/0033	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the hearing sense subsonic	A61M21/00	In the scheme	427
A61M2021/0038	Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis by the use of a particular sense, or stimulus by the hearing sense ultrasonic	A61M21/00	In the scheme	298

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 psychiatric medicines, psychological assessment and therapy technology; tobacco-dependence drugs are excluded and counted under preventive health, and service reach is not captured. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Year by year

Volume

Share by country

Country leaderboard

Ten largest

Applicants

Global

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Germany

Similar capabilities

Crosswalk

Other capabilities in Population Health