I have a listing of links to unofficial copies of the CIA World Factbook from various years, so readers can still consult them now that the CIA has discontinued the publication and apparently removed copies from its own website: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=worldfactbook
Listings currently cover editions from 1981 to 2024. Crawls of the post-2020 versions may be incomplete, and I don't know of online copies of pre-1981 editions. I welcome suggestions of links to more editions, or useful alternates to these.
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