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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 541 | 580 | 690 | 475 | 358 | 475 | 329 | 401 | 371 | 408 | 374 | 373 | |||
| Venezuela, RB | 1,090 | 2,292 | 2,232 | 1,773 | 1,564 | 1,461 | 1,389 | 1,377 | 928 | 560 | 338 | ||||
| Algeria | 229 | 127 | 465 | 730 | 803 | 781 | 722 | 719 | 716 | 566 | 594 | 521 | 525 | 547 | 581 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | 173 | 206 | 443 | 528 | 489 | 432 | 338 | 119 | 702 | 995 | 915 | 578 | 634 | 581 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| Angola | 114 | 108 | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 246 | 747 | 676 | 869 | 150 | 180 | 509 | 683 | 598 |