# factbook/factbook.json

World Factbook Country Profiles in JSON  - Free Open Public Domain Data - No API Key Required ;-)

Repository: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/factbookjson
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: factbook, opendata, world, countries, publicdomain, json, europe, africa, asia, america, oceania, economy, government, people, religion, git-scraping
Last push: 2026-08-19T11:23:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4435, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1127, forks 146 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:41.415066+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-science, search-engine
- domain: data-science, analytics, education
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: open-data, public-domain, country-profiles, world-factbook, git-scraping, no-api-key, -dataset, geospatial, web-server

## Member repositories
- factbook/factbook.json (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:41.415066+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:38:47.631877+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:41.415066+00:00, sha 8979026a08f3)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/factbook.json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:43:45.137947+00:00, sha 00f992648dfd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.