Statistics for Countries that Change Their Name

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Year Change	Old Name	Current Name	% Correct
1989	Burma	Myanmar	88%
1971	East Pakistan	Bangladesh	86%
1975/2002	Portuguese Timor	East Timor/ Timor-Leste	86%
1975	Dutch Guiana	Suriname	86%
2018	Swaziland	Eswatini	84%
1935	Persia	Iran	81%
1972	Ceylon	Sri Lanka	81%
1997	Zaire	Democratic Republic of the Congo	79%
1949	Siam	Thailand	79%
1966	British Guiana	Guyana	77%
1945/1949	Dutch East Indies	Indonesia	77%
1980	Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	77%
1973	British Honduras	Belize	74%
1932	British Mandate of Mesopotamia	Iraq	74%
1990	Southwest Africa	Namibia	72%
1964	Northern Rhodesia	Zambia	72%
1991	Kampuchea	Cambodia	70%
1974	Portuguese Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	67%
1957	Gold Coast	Ghana	65%
1946	Transjordan	Jordan	65%
1977	French Somaliland	Djibouti	63%
1968	Spanish Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	63%
1971	The Trucial States of the Coast of Oman	United Arab Emirates	63%
1898	Spanish East Indies	Philippines	58%
1825	Upper Peru	Bolivia	56%
1941	Abyssinia	Ethiopia	56%
1984	Upper Volta	Burkina Faso	53%
1821	New Spain	Mexico	49%
1975	Dahomey	Benin	47%
1979	Gilbert Islands	Kiribati	42%
1964	Nyasaland	Malawi	40%
1960	French Sudan	Mali	40%
1966	Bechuanaland	Botswana	35%
1966	Basutoland	Lesotho	33%
1932	Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd	Saudi Arabia	33%
1980	New Hebrides	Vanuatu	26%
1863	New Granada	Colombia	23%
1978	Ellice Islands	Tuvalu	23%
1530	Terra de Santa Cruz	Brazil	19%
1958/1979	Ubangi-Shari	Central African Republic	14%
1819	Temasik	Singapore	14%