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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 229 | 127 | 465 | 730 | 803 | 781 | 722 | 719 | 716 | 566 | 594 | 521 | 525 | 547 | 581 |
| Bahrain | 139 | 161 | 167 | 199 | 185 | 171 | 237 | 219 | 322 | 257 | 326 | ||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 511 | 1,081 | 1,008 | 1,625 | 1,591 | 1,528 | 1,416 | 1,384 | 1,337 | 1,258 | 1,254 | 1,258 | 1,156 | 1,229 | 1,343 |
| Iraq | 102 | 101 | 77 | 106 | 98 | ||||||||||
| Kuwait | 37 | 256 | |||||||||||||
| Libya | 47 | ||||||||||||||
| Qatar | 58 | 323 | 477 | 548 | 574 | 799 | 604 | 722 | |||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 439 | 797 | 374 | 643 | 643 | 440 | 135 | 1,691 | 2,196 | 2,282 | 2,321 | 2,463 | 2,274 | 2,581 | |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 48 | 34 | 16 | 45 | 32 | 16 | 20 | ||||||||
| Tunisia | 134 | 210 | 282 | 508 | 543 | 476 | 437 | 400 | 409 | 348 | 383 | 271 | |||
| United Arab Emirates | 1,263 | 1,318 | 1,327 | 1,402 | 1,438 | 1,714 | 1,642 | 1,733 | 1,723 | 1,843 | 1,869 | 2,354 |