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.