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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1,712 | 1,928 | 2,555 | 2,409 | 2,383 | 2,627 | 3,061 | 1,988 | 2,291 | 2,620 | 2,503 | 2,757 | 2,637 | 2,368 | 2,966 |
| Malaysia | 92 | 206 | 522 | 1,231 | 1,076 | 1,114 | 1,199 | 1,353 | 1,272 | 1,109 | 1,166 | 1,116 | 1,071 | 989 | 883 |
| New Zealand | 802 | 1,463 | 1,893 | 1,585 | 1,501 | 1,425 | 1,614 | 1,636 | 1,184 | 1,075 | 1,014 | 1,017 | 324 | 348 | 330 |
| Singapore | 516 | 569 | 895 | 1,056 | 1,081 | 1,143 | 1,303 | 1,469 | 1,601 | 1,609 | 1,575 | 1,727 | 1,778 | 2,024 | |
| Cyprus | 20 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
| United Kingdom | 19,310 | 22,050 | 17,833 | 15,490 | 15,343 | 15,370 | 14,972 | 15,196 | 14,867 | 13,876 | 13,301 | 12,865 | 12,061 | 11,990 | 11,592 |
| Jamaica | 4 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 25 | 22 | 33 | 7 | 19 | 11 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 16 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Malta | 2 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | |
| Canada | 2,549 | 4,187 | 5,183 | 4,550 | 4,754 | 4,709 | 4,567 | 4,198 | 4,277 | 4,078 | 4,053 | 4,349 | 4,238 | 4,452 | 4,710 |
| India | 1,147 | 2,206 | 4,721 | 8,853 | 8,841 | 9,553 | 10,669 | 12,040 | 12,579 | 13,199 | 14,961 | 16,289 | 19,454 | 23,141 | 26,267 |
| Pakistan | 23 | 46 | 143 | 114 | 92 | 96 | 151 | 146 | 209 | 204 | 193 | 306 | 313 | 338 | 426 |
| Sri Lanka | 23 | 71 | 149 | 225 | 194 | 328 | 218 | 280 | 277 | 343 | 356 | 353 | 266 | ||
| Kenya | 34 | 77 | 135 | 123 | 127 | 132 | 137 | 144 | 135 | 244 | 294 | 341 | 160 | ||
| Nigeria | 12 | 64 | 42 | 50 | 85 | 100 | 382 | 439 | 410 | ||||||
| Malawi | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Mauritius | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Zambia | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 17 | 13 | |
| Uganda | 3 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 14 | |||||
| Barbados | 3 | 1 | 29 | 73 | |||||||||||
| Bahamas, The | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| Bangladesh | 32 | 70 | 50 | 66 | 37 | 67 | 60 | 44 | 41 | 77 | 61 | 69 | 68 | 40 | 74 |
| Samoa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| South Africa | 1,093 | 895 | 1,003 | 821 | 656 | 608 | 638 | 802 | 889 | 704 | 728 | 657 | 567 | 542 | 1,804 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1 | 2 | 40 | |||||||||||
| Tanzania | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Namibia | 5 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 21 | 8 | |||||||||
| Rwanda | 40 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | ||||||||
| Lesotho | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 15 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 34 | 23 | 26 | 30 | |||
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Botswana | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Ghana | 14 | 15 | 13 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Brunei Darussalam | 20 | 20 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Antigua and Barbuda | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| St. Lucia | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Seychelles | 3 |