Statistics for 2023 News Stories - Name the Country

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Clue	Country	% Correct
Passes China to become the most populous country in the world	India	99%
Crowns Charles III as king	United Kingdom	98%
Suffers over 1,000 deaths from a Hamas terrorist attack	Israel	91%
Launches a counteroffensive in an attempt to reclaim territory lost the previous year	Ukraine	85%
Allegedly sends spy balloons over U.S. airspace	China	84%
Declares its intention to annex most of Guyana	Venezuela	79%
Joins NATO	Finland	75%
Seizes the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing Armenian residents to flee	Azerbaijan	72%
Former President Lula da Silva takes office once again	Brazil	70%
Wins its sixth Cricket World Cup title	Australia	67%
Brings Neymar to its professional football league with a €150 million yearly salary	Saudi Arabia	67%
Suffers over 50,000 deaths from a 7.8 earthquake near the city of Gaziantep	Turkey	62%
Libertarian candidate Javier Milei is elected President	Argentina	59%
Houthi forces launch missiles against ships in the Red Sea	Yemen	58%
Geert Wilders' Freedom Party wins the most seats in Parliamentary elections	Netherlands	56%
Sees its fertility rate plummet to around 0.7 children per woman, the lowest any country has ever recorded	South Korea	44%
Opens a new prison to house 40,000 tattooed gang members arrested en masse the previous year	El Salvador	41%
A military junta overthrows the President and demands the withdrawal of French troops	Niger	41%