CIA World Factbook

The World Factbook provides comprehensive country profiles covering history, geography, demographics, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries and territories worldwide.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The World Factbook has been discontinued on February 4th, 2026.
This dataset represents a historical snapshot preserved by the community on GitHub.
For more information, see the CIA's announcement.

Data Organization

The dataset contains country profile information organized by geographic regions:

• Africa
• Antarctica
• Australia and Oceania
• Central America and Caribbean
• Central Asia
• East and Southeast Asia
• Europe
• Middle East
• North America
• South America
• South Asia
• Oceans
• World (global statistics)

Country Codes

Note: Country profiles use the official two-letter GEC (formerly FIPS) codes, NOT ISO codes. For example:

• au = Austria (NOT Australia)
• gm = Germany (NOT Gambia)
• as = Australia

See the Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes for complete mapping information.