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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigua and Barbuda | 8 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||||
| Bolivia | 294 | 241 | 277 | 151 | 227 | ||||||||||
| Cuba | 26 | 180 | 184 | 140 | 143 | 126 | 163 | 145 | 126 | 88 | 76 | 86 | |||
| Dominica | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |||||||||
| Ecuador | 541 | 580 | 690 | 475 | 358 | 475 | 329 | 401 | 371 | 408 | 374 | 373 | |||
| Nicaragua | 129 | 208 | 172 | 124 | 145 | ||||||||||
| St. Lucia | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | |||||
| Venezuela, RB | 1,090 | 2,292 | 2,232 | 1,773 | 1,564 | 1,461 | 1,389 | 1,377 | 928 | 560 | 338 |