factbook/factbook.json resource

World Factbook Country Profiles in JSON - Free Open Public Domain Data - No API Key Required ;-) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/factbook/factbook.json · CC0-1.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

76/100

Activity 98
Release rhythm 35
Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: n/a
age_days: 4435
days_rel: n/a
days_push: 14
n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1127 stars · 146 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A JSON dataset of CIA World Factbook country profiles, published as free public domain open data with no API key required. Country profiles are served via raw GitHub URLs and auto-updated from the original CIA source until the Factbook was shut down in February 2026.

Use cases

get country profiles as structured data
find free open data on world countries economy and government
query world factbook data in mongodb
build an app using country statistics without an api key
download country demographic and religion data for analysis
use world factbook data in a data science project

When to choose

you need public-domain country data with no licensing restrictions
you want structured JSON instead of scraping HTML factbook pages
you need historical CIA World Factbook data since the source was discontinued

When to avoid

you need ISO country codes rather than GEC/FIPS codes
you need continuously updated live data after the CIA Factbook shutdown
you need data beyond what the World Factbook covered

Facets

dataset · maturity maintenance

data-science search-engine data-science analytics education cross-platform open-data public-domain country-profiles world-factbook git-scraping no-api-key -dataset geospatial web-server

2 sources

readme: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json · fetched 2026-08-28 · 8979026a08f3
registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/factbook.json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 00f992648dfd

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
factbook/factbook.json	main	76

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markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="factbook/factbook.json")

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