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Free World Factbook Alternative Launches with Live AI Data After CIA Shutdown
Dubai, UAE - March 31, 2026 - When the Central Intelligence Agency unexpectedly discontinued the World Factbook on February 4, 2026, it left millions of educators, researchers, journalists and developers without one of the internet's most trusted free reference resources. The platform, which had provided comprehensive country profiles for 258 nations since 1997, disappeared without warning or archive.
worldfactbook.io has launched as a free, open-data successor - covering 261 countries and territories with live data sourced weekly from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, Freedom House, and Transparency International.
Unlike the original CIA publication, which relied on static annual updates, worldfactbook.io refreshes all economic and demographic indicators on a weekly basis. The platform also introduces features the CIA version never offered: an AI-powered country intelligence system capable of answering natural language questions about any country, a side-by-side country comparison tool, and a fully free REST API requiring no registration or API key.
"The data the CIA was publishing was always public domain and sourced from institutions like the World Bank and the UN," said the worldfactbook.io team. "We simply built the modern platform that data deserved - one that won't disappear overnight."
Key features of worldfactbook.io:
- 261 country profiles with 1,400+ data indicators
- Live data from World Bank, IMF, UN, Freedom House
- AI-powered country intelligence and Q&A
- Free REST API: https://worldfactbook.io/api/v1/countries/
- Country comparison tool (up to 4 countries)
- Weekly data refresh - more current than the CIA version ever was
- Completely free, no registration required
The platform is available immediately at https://worldfactbook.io [https://worldfactbook.io/]. The free API is documented at https://worldfactbook.io/api-docs.
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worldfactbook.io
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https://worldfactbook.io [https://worldfactbook.io/]
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