In July 2023, the Member States of WIPO approved the Program of Work and Budget for the 2024/25 biennium. WIPO is unusual among UN organizations in that we are almost entirely self-financing.
In our Program of Work and Budget for 2024/25, we estimate that our overall income will reach over 970 million Swiss francs, and that our expenditure will amount to about 857 million Swiss francs. Of our overall income, approximately 95 per cent are generated from fee-paying services which we provide to users of the Global Intellectual Property Systems, namely the PCT, Madrid, Hague and Lisbon Systems.