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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic of Korea | 9,082 | 72,831 | 1,22,188 | 1,31,805 | 1,38,034 | 1,48,136 | 1,59,978 | 1,64,073 | 1,67,275 | 1,63,424 | 1,59,084 | 1,62,561 | 1,71,603 | 1,80,477 | 1,86,245 |
| Philippines | 147 | 154 | 210 | 170 | 186 | 162 | 220 | 334 | 375 | 327 | 323 | 529 | 501 | 476 | 490 |
| Turkey | 138 | 277 | 928 | 3,180 | 3,885 | 4,434 | 4,392 | 4,766 | 5,352 | 6,230 | 8,175 | 7,156 | 7,871 | 7,920 | 8,234 |
| Cuba | 105 | 62 | 38 | 27 | 24 | 32 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 33 | 21 | ||||
| Dominican Republic | 5 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 28 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 10 | 7 | |
| Guatemala | 27 | 54 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| Haiti | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Honduras | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Jamaica | 4 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 25 | 22 | 33 | 7 | 19 | 11 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 16 |
| Nicaragua | 14 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 262 | 56 | 121 | 70 | 61 | 65 | 74 | 55 | 47 | 35 | 96 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 44 | 42 | 72 | ||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 12 | 64 | 42 | 50 | 85 | 100 | 382 | 439 | 410 | ||||||
| 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 | |
| Zimbabwe | 44 | 9 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Uganda | 3 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 14 | |||||
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Barbados | 3 | 1 | 29 | 73 | |||||||||||
| Peru | 49 | 40 | 27 | 39 | 39 | 54 | 73 | 83 | 67 | 72 | 100 | 89 | 137 | 125 | 94 |
| Panama | 15 | 7 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 68 | 33 | 135 | 34 | 22 | 35 | |||
| Indonesia | 157 | 235 | 508 | 533 | 663 | 702 | 1,058 | 1,101 | 2,271 | 1,407 | 3,093 | 1,309 | 1,397 | ||
| China | 5,832 | 25,346 | 93,485 | 2,93,066 | 4,15,829 | 5,35,313 | 7,04,936 | 8,01,135 | 9,68,252 | 12,04,981 | 12,45,709 | 13,93,815 | 12,43,568 | 13,44,817 | 14,26,644 |
| Mongolia | 100 | 110 | 133 | 139 | 109 | 112 | 124 | 82 | 84 | 66 | 109 | ||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Madagascar | 7 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Mozambique | 15 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 34 | 23 | 26 | 30 | |||
| Botswana | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Antigua and Barbuda | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Lucia | 5 | 3 | 2 |