The World FactbookThe World Factbook remains the CIA's most widely disseminated and most popular product; millions of visitors frequent the online
Factbookeach month. In addition, tens of thousands of government, commercial,
academic, and other Web sites link to, or replicate, the online version
of the
Factbook.
This reference site is updated biweekly throughout the year to
provide wide-ranging and hard-to-locate information about the
background, geography, people, government, economy, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries from
Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Included among the 271 geographic entries is
one for the "World," which incorporates data and other information
summarized where possible from the other 270 country listings.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/download/download-2008/factbook.zip