Ratio of sport and exercise medicine publications to the total biomedical publications in the Arab countries (2002–2016)
| Country | Number of sport and exercise medicine publications | Number of all medical publications | Per cent |
| Algeria | 6 | 2526 | 0.24 |
| Bahrain | 5 | 1034 | 0.48 |
| Comoros | – | 17 | – |
| Djibouti | 1 | 72 | 1.39 |
| Egypt | 114 | 34 722 | 0.33 |
| Iraq | 7 | 2453 | 0.29 |
| Jordan | 92 | 7693 | 1.2 |
| Kuwait | 35 | 4642 | 0.75 |
| Lebanon | 37 | 13 677 | 0.27 |
| Libya | 3 | 702 | 0.43 |
| Mauritania | – | 52 | – |
| Morocco | 28 | 5354 | 0.52 |
| Oman | 26 | 3592 | 0.72 |
| Palestine (West Bank) | 2 | 953 | 0.21 |
| Qatar | 352 | 4548 | 7.74 |
| Saudi Arabia | 175 | 32 903 | 0.53 |
| Somalia | – | 35 | – |
| Sudan | – | 2070 | – |
| Syria | 1 | 997 | 0.1 |
| Tunisia | 236 | 10 665 | 2.21 |
| UAE | 28 | 4500 | 0.62 |
| Yemen | – | 786 | – |
| Total | 1148 | 1 33 993 | 0.86 |