World Factbook Archive

The complete CIA World Factbook, 1990-2025, in your pocket - fully offline. The World Factbook was the United States' flagship open reference on every country on Earth: geography, people, government, economy, military, communications, and transnational issues. Publication ended on February 4, 2026. This archive preserves all 36 annual editions - 285 entities and over one million data fields - and makes them searchable, comparable, and readable anywhere, with no internet connection required. THE ARCHIVE - 285 countries, territories, and entities with complete profiles - Every annual edition from 1990 through 2025 - switch years on any profile - Field-by-field change tracking: see exactly what changed between editions - Search capitals and Factbook fields, with spelling suggestions and boolean operators - Linked-country previews and short explanations of marked terms ANALYSIS - Global rankings for about 40 indicators across any year - Country comparison: side-by-side tables, charts, saved comparisons, and source evidence - Trends: multi-decade time series with world-event context - Demographics: population pyramids - World Explorer: interactive globe and map projections, country search, and colorblind-safe palettes - Dossier: a one-screen intelligence-style brief for any country - Query & Dashboard: filter by edition, region and numeric conditions; save statistics and trend cards - Distance paths and trade links in World Explorer GAMES - Seven geography games together in one Games hub - Border Explorer: connect countries across land borders, with maps, cards and three difficulty levels - Factbook Daily: five questions built from archive data, with flags and country outlines - Mystery Country: globe-based clues, optional outlines, and links to the answer’s Factbook entry CIA MAPS - 284 bundled maps for 106 countries, available offline - Administrative, physiography and transportation maps where available - Search the map library or open maps from a country profile - Save and share maps outside the app RESEARCH TOOLS - Bookmarks, collections, highlights, and notes - Excerpts saved to collections; print-friendly entry, dossier and study-sheet PDFs - Citations, read-aloud and English/local country-name pronunciation - Export Factbook entries, maps and query results - Searchable Settings for reading, accessibility, audio and games - Everything stays on your device WHY THIS EXISTS The Factbook was published for decades, but no combined, structured database of all its editions ever existed - each year stood alone, in changing formats. When publication ended, this project parsed every edition from 1990 onward (Project Gutenberg texts, archived HTML, JSON snapshots) into one unified, queryable archive - first as the worldfactbookarchive.org website, now as this app. DATA INTEGRITY Published Factbook text is preserved alongside structured fields for search and analysis. Archive classifications, historical country associations, and extraction errors are corrected through documented validation. Full methodology, sources, and validation are documented openly, and the complete raw dataset is published at github.com/MilkMp/CIA-World-Factbooks-Archive-1990-2025. Truly offline: the entire 36-year dataset ships inside the app. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is tracked, and no account is needed. This is the official companion app of worldfactbookarchive.org, built and maintained by the same developer. The World Factbook is a work of the United States Government in the public domain. This app and website are an independent archive and are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Central Intelligence Agency.