GoKawiilDeveloper Yegor Tkachenko builds free replacement for discontinued CIA World Factbook
After the CIA stopped updating the World Factbook in February 2026, developer Yegor Tkachenko built worldfacts.app, a site aggregating country data from sources like the World Bank, WHO, IMF, FAO, UNODC, and governance and press-freedom indices. The project, built with assistance from Claude, offers a public API for querying country statistics by category and field.
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The Factbook's discontinuation left a gap for researchers, journalists and developers who relied on a single, citable source of country-level statistics, and this project suggests independent developers may step in to fill such gaps using public-domain data. Because the data is pulled from multiple third-party sources rather than a single vetted government agency, consistency and accuracy could vary across entries, which users should factor in when relying on it for research or decision-making.
- The CIA World Factbook stopped being maintained in February 2026.
- A new site, worldfacts.app, compiles similar country data from World Bank, WHO, IMF and other public sources.
- It offers a public API and was built by an independent developer with AI assistance, not a government agency.
Source: worldfacts.app, 2026-10-11
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