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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| Kuwait | 13 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Oman | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 11 | 30 | ||||||||
| Qatar | 3 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 39 | 81 | 47 | |||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 16 | 76 | 119 | 288 | 347 | 491 | 652 | 715 | 1,070 | 909 | 1,078 | 1,188 | 1,294 | 1,398 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 25 | 33 | 23 | 21 | 29 | 35 | 57 | 63 | 57 | 55 | 39 | 69 |