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The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, [1] is a reference resource produced by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Publishing Office.
Other figures are estimates from The World Factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency (for GDP [1] and GDP per capita [2]), and are noted beside the figures along with the year of estimate. Click on one of the small triangles in the headings to re-order the list according to that category.
Data are in millions of international dollars; they were compiled by the World Bank. The third table is a tabulation of the CIA World Factbook GDP (PPP) data update of 2019. The data for GDP at purchasing power parity has also been rebased using the new International Comparison Program price surveys and extrapolated to 2007.
The CIA World Factbook, as a public domain source, is widely used as a source by Wikipedia. Some of the statements in it are undisputed and can be used without further qualification. This includes: Geographic data, except in the case of certain international conflicts
The birth rates [1] and death rates [2] in columns one and two are the CIA World Factbook estimates for the year 2022 unless otherwise noted, rounded to the nearest tenth (except for Mayotte and the Falkland Islands with 2010 and 2012 estimates respectively). The natural increase rate in column three is calculated from the rounded values of ...
{{#invoke:CIA World Factbook|archive|year=|date=|archive=}} Generates a link to the annual archives of the CIA World Factbook. |year= the year of the archive |date= the date of the article in the Factbook (either on the article itself, or the access date of the article) |archive= the url or date of the archive of the article.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...