Statistics for Countries That Have Sent an Astronaut Into Space

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First Year	First Person	Country	% Correct
1961	Alan Shepard	United States	100%
2003	Yang Liwei	China	97%
1991	Helen Sharman	United Kingdom	96%
1982	Jean-Loup Chrétien	France	93%
1992	Aleksandr Kaleri & Aleksandr Viktorenko	Russia	93%
1990	Toyohiro Akiyama	Japan	92%
1983	Ulf Merbold	West Germany (Germany)	92%
2006	Marcos Pontes	Brazil	91%
1984	Marc Garneau	Canada	91%
1985	Rodolfo Neri Vela	Mexico	91%
1984	Rakesh Sharma	India	90%
1998	Pedro Duque	Spain	87%
1992	Franco Malerba	Italy	86%
2008	Yi So-yeon	South Korea	82%
2021	Chris Boshuizen	Australia	79%
1978	Mirosław Hermaszewski	Poland	79%
2006	Christer Fulglesang	Sweden	78%
1961	Yuri Gagarin	Soviet Union	76%
1997	Leonid Kadenyuk	Ukraine	72%
1985	Wubbo Ockels	Netherlands	71%
1992	Dirk Frimout	Belgium	69%
2015	Andreas Mogensen	Denmark	67%
2002	Mark Shuttleworth	South Africa	67%
2006	Anousheh Ansari	Iran	66%
1991	Franz Viehböck	Austria	65%
1992	Claude Nicollier	Switzerland	63%
1985	Sultan al-Saud	Saudi Arabia	60%
2003	Ilan Ramon	Israel	58%
2015	Aidyn Aimbetov	Kazakhstan	58%
1981	Dumitru Prunariu	Romania	58%
1980	Bertalan Farkas	Hungary	55%
1979	Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	52%
2019	Hazza Al Mansouri	United Arab Emirates	49%
1980	Phạm Tuân	Vietnam	48%
1980	Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez	Cuba	46%
1978	Vladimir Remek	Czechoslovakia	42%
1999	Ivan Bella	Slovakia	42%
1981	Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa	Mongolia	39%
1978	Sigmund Jähn	East Germany	36%
2007	Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor	Malaysia	33%
1987	Muhammed Faris	Syria	27%
1988	Abdul Ahad Mohmand	Afghanistan	22%