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| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 79 | 46 | 33 | 63 | 53 | 29 | |||||||||
| Haiti | 13 | 15 | 11 | 19 | |||||||||||
| Yemen | 22 | 23 | 55 | 37 | 49 | 37 | 24 | 25 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 22 | ||
| Burundi | 3 | 10 | 2 | 15 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 107 | 90 | 110 | ||||||||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 100 | 5 | 4 |