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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 6 | 32 | 59 | 76 | 94 | 119 | 118 | 94 | 89 | 106 | 149 | 152 | 113 | 163 | 268 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 278 | 534 | 428 | 605 | 618 | 683 | 641 | 752 | 718 | 920 | 1,025 | 997 | 1,027 | 978 | 881 |
| Iraq | 335 | 613 | 653 | 737 | 635 | ||||||||||
| Kuwait | 13 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Libya | 10 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 247 | 105 | 198 | 120 | 103 | 121 | 76 | 102 | |||||||
| Tunisia | 27 | 47 | 56 | 113 | 137 | 150 | 112 | 142 | 180 | 235 | 172 | 180 | |||
| United Arab Emirates | 25 | 33 | 23 | 21 | 29 | 35 | 57 | 63 | 57 | 55 | 39 | 69 |