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Country name 2008 2009 2010 2011
Afghanistan 1.1 2.9 3.4 3.6
Albania 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Algeria 3.1 3.1 2.8 2.8
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.6
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Armenia 3.0 3.9 3.9 3.8
Aruba
Australia 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Austria 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.5
Azerbaijan 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.7
Bahamas, The 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4
Bahrain 3.4 3.0 2.7 2.6
Bangladesh 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Barbados 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.4
Belarus 4.1 4.1 4.1 3.5
Belgium 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7
Belize 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7
Benin 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia 1.9 1.9 1.8 1.8
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7
Botswana 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0
Brazil 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Brunei Darussalam 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.7
Bulgaria 2.0 1.8 1.9 1.4
Burkina Faso 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
Burundi 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.1
Cambodia 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.3
Cameroon 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Canada 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Cape Verde 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
Chad 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Chile 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.3
China 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Colombia 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.9
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5
Congo, Rep. 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7
Costa Rica 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4
Cote d'Ivoire 0.3 0.2
Croatia 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1
Cuba 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.4
Curacao
Cyprus 1.9 1.9 2.2 2.1
Czech Republic 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Denmark 1.0 0.6 0.6 0.6
Djibouti 4.7 4.6 4.4 4.3
Dominica
Dominican Republic 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9
Ecuador 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8
Egypt, Arab Rep. 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.0
El Salvador 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.2
Equatorial Guinea 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3
Eritrea 8.3 8.0 7.8 7.5
Estonia 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.8
Ethiopia 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3
Faeroe Islands
Fiji 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.9
Finland 1.2 0.9 0.9 0.9
France 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1
French Polynesia
Gabon 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.1
Gambia, The 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Georgia 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.3
Germany 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5
Ghana 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
Greece 3.1 2.7 2.8 2.8
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7
Guinea 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3
Guinea-Bissau 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Guyana 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.4
Haiti 0.0 0.0
Honduras 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6
Hong Kong SAR, China
Hungary 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.9
Iceland 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
India 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5
Indonesia 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6
Iran, Islamic Rep. 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.2
Iraq 8.2 9.1 10.6 10.3
Ireland 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4
Isle of Man
Israel 6.2 6.0 5.8 5.7
Italy 1.7 1.3 1.4 1.5
Jamaica 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Japan 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Jordan 7.5 7.2 7.1 6.8
Kazakhstan 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8
Kenya 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Kiribati
Korea, Dem. Rep. 9.0 9.5 9.5 9.4
Korea, Rep. 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6
Kosovo
Kuwait 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6
Kyrgyz Republic 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8
Lao PDR 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.0
Latvia 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5
Lebanon 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
Lesotho 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Liberia 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
Libya 3.3 3.2
Liechtenstein
Lithuania 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
Luxembourg 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6
Macao SAR, China
Macedonia, FYR 2.1 0.9 0.8 0.8
Madagascar 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Malawi 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Malaysia 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1
Maldives
Mali 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Malta 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2
Marshall Islands
Mauritania 2.0 1.9 1.9 1.8
Mauritius 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4
Mexico 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Moldova 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Monaco
Mongolia 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.4
Montenegro
Morocco 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1
Mozambique 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Myanmar 1.9 1.9 1.8 1.8
Namibia 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6
Nepal 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0
Netherlands 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
New Caledonia
New Zealand 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Nicaragua 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Niger 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Nigeria 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway 0.7 1.0 0.9 0.9
Oman 4.4 4.1 3.9 3.7
Pakistan 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.5
Palau
Panama 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7
Papua New Guinea 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Paraguay 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8
Peru 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.2
Philippines 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Poland 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6
Portugal 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6
Puerto Rico
Qatar 1.2 1.0 0.9 0.8
Romania 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
Russian Federation 1.9 2.0 1.9 1.8
Rwanda 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.5
Senegal 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Singapore 6.4 5.4 5.3 5.1
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovak Republic 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Slovenia 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2
Solomon Islands
Somalia 0.1 0.1 0.1
South Africa 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4
South Sudan
Spain 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9
Sri Lanka 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Martin (French part)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Sudan 1.2 1.2 1.2 2.4
Suriname 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.9
Swaziland
Sweden 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Switzerland 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5
Syrian Arab Republic 7.4 7.6 7.4 3.2
Tajikistan 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Tanzania 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Thailand 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.2
Timor-Leste 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4
Togo 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Tunisia 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.2
Turkey 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.3
Turkmenistan 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3
Ukraine 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9
United Arab Emirates 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.0
United Kingdom 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5
United States 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Uruguay 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.5
Uzbekistan 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.5
Vanuatu
Venezuela, RB 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8
Vietnam 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
West Bank and Gaza 6.5 6.4 6.3 6.0
Yemen, Rep. 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.0
Zambia 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Zimbabwe 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7

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