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OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE

Browse every edition of the CIA World Factbook from 1990 to 2025. View raw field data exactly as published, search across all years, and track how the CIA's reporting on any country has changed over time.

36 years of geopolitical intelligence preserved and structured for analysis. Every country, every field, every edition — parsed from the original CIA publications into a searchable, queryable archive.

CIA World Factbook Archive

Data sourced from the CIA World Factbook (public domain). This project is not affiliated with the CIA or U.S. Government.

The CIA World Factbook data is public domain (U.S. Government work) and free for anyone to use. The ETL scripts and data tools in the GitHub repository are open source under the MIT License. The web application itself is proprietary software — all rights reserved.