Central Intelligence Agency

CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)

The CIA World Factbook is the long-running unclassified almanac of reference information on 260 world entities including all sovereign countries, dependencies, and oceans, organized into the categories of Geography, People and Society, Environment, Government, Economy, Energy, Communications, Transportation, Military and Security, Space, Terrorism, and Transnational Issues. The web product was discontinued 4 February 2026; the community-maintained `factbook.json` GitHub project preserves a CC0 / public-domain JSON dataset of all entities for programmatic access.

Documentation GitHub

SDKs

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GitHubRepository

https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json

Other Resources

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Website

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

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OpenData

https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json

API entry from apis.yml

aid: central-intelligence-agency:cia-world-factbook
name: CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)
tags:
- Country Profiles
- Demographics
- Geography
- Open Data
- Reference
- World Factbook
humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
properties:
- url: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
  type: Website
- url: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json
  type: OpenData
- url: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json
  type: GitHubRepository
description: The CIA World Factbook is the long-running unclassified almanac of reference information
  on 260 world entities including all sovereign countries, dependencies, and oceans, organized into the
  categories of Geography, People and Society, Environment, Government, Economy, Energy, Communications,
  Transportation, Military and Security, Space, Terrorism, and Transnational Issues. The web product was
  discontinued 4 February 2026; the community-maintained `factbook.json` GitHub project preserves a CC0
  / public-domain JSON dataset of all entities for programmatic access.