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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 10 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 20 | 45 | 16 | 34 | 29 | 33 | 35 | |||
| Venezuela, RB | 262 | 56 | 121 | 70 | 61 | 65 | 74 | 55 | 47 | 35 | 96 | ||||
| Algeria | 6 | 32 | 59 | 76 | 94 | 119 | 118 | 94 | 89 | 106 | 149 | 152 | 113 | 163 | 268 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | 182 | 410 | 4,051 | 11,108 | 11,529 | 10,622 | 11,305 | 13,683 | 14,930 | 15,264 | 11,908 | 11,569 | 11,396 | 10,210 | |
| 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 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 25 | 33 | 23 | 21 | 29 | 35 | 57 | 63 | 57 | 55 | 39 | 69 | |||
| Angola | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 12 | 64 | 42 | 50 | 85 | 100 | 382 | 439 | 410 |