CIA World Factbook Datasets

(2021–2025)

A clean snapshot of the CIA World Factbooks for 2021–2025—ready for research, teaching, dashboards, and analysis.

Why these datasets exist

The CIA’s World Factbook access and archival formats have changed over time. Many users now face a time-consuming process of collecting, cleaning, and standardizing Factbook data for analysis. This product provides consistent, reproducible datasets across 2021–2025 in Excel and CSV files.

What’s included

Five annual snapshots: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
All variables available in the Factbook source for those snapshots
Excel + CSV formats for easy import into R, Stata, Python, SPSS, or Power B and others

File structure

Each file contains Countries (country list / identifiers and source)
Each file contains Data (one row per country for each variable for that year)
Variable Dictionary

Who uses this

Teachers and students (ready-to-use data for projects and assignments)
Researchers (quick panel builds for cross-national comparisons)
Analysts (dashboards and monitoring across geographies)
Journalists (background context and structured lookup)

Pricing

Option A — Individual (Non-Commercial) — $49 one-time
For personal research, coursework, and internal academic use.

Option B — Commercial / Consulting / Institutional — $199 one-time
For commercial analysis, consulting work, and organizational/internal use.

High-School Teachers — $0
Free access for classroom instruction.

Licensing

You may use the dataset internally for your work according to the option you purchase.
Please do not repost the full dataset publicly or redistribute it as a standalone product.
If you need a site license or library access option, please contact us.

FAQ

Is this official CIA data?
The source material comes from the CIA World Factbook. These datasets are cleaned, structured extractions and packaging by Databanks International. We are not affiliated with the CIA.

What formats do I receive?
Excel (.xlsx) and CSV (.csv).

Can I share it with colleagues/students?
Teachers may use it for classroom instruction. Individual licenses are for personal/non-commercial use. Commercial licenses allow internal organizational use. For broader sharing, contact us for institutional options.

What am I paying for?

We’re charging because this isn’t “a link to the CIA website” — it’s a finished, analysis-ready product that most people cannot easily recreate now. We've curated and standardized the CIA World Factbook (2021–2025) into reproducible, analysis-ready Excel/CSV datasets (all variables), with documentation—so users can download and use them immediately instead of scraping and cleaning archived pages.

Refunds?
Because this is a digital download, refunds are generally not available once the download is delivered. If you have a delivery problem, we will fix it promptly.

Questions or institutional access?
Email: support@databanksinternational.com
We can provide institutional access options for libraries, research groups, and organizations.