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The CIA World Factbook is not the alpha and the omega for country information (and misses a few essential health indicators), but it keeps improving and being enhanced with new data elements, if not by new concepts, such as creating pre-defined subset groups for countries with certain common features, such as ASEAN countries, Francophone countries, orsub-Saharan countries.
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Hundreds of "Factbook" look-alikes exist on the Internet.
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Hundreds of "Factbook" look-alikes exist on the Internet.
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Hundreds of "Factbook" look-alikes exist on the Internet.
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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"Factbook", the breakdown of the South African economy is 9% constituted by agriculture, 26% by industry and 65% by services.
Muti 2010
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The gross domestic product (GDP) of Greece (measured on a purchasing power parity basis) was set by the CIA "Factbook" at $339 billion last year.
Muti 2010
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Based on an inequality measure known as the Gini coefficient, the United States ranks on a par with developing countries such as Ivory Coast, Jamaica and Malaysia, according to the CIA World Factbook.
How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression Ryan McCarthy 2010
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In a CIA Factbook list of debt to GDP ratios of 132 countries in 2010, Japan topped the list at 226%.
Ellen Brown: Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don't Matter Ellen Brown 2011
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To create this chart I turned to the CIA Factbook, where I looked up the populations of various nations and then divided this number into their land area (excluding lakes and rivers) to get the number of square feet available per person.
Boing Boing 2009
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Based on an inequality measure known as the Gini coefficient, the United States ranks on a par with developing countries such as Ivory Coast, Jamaica and Malaysia, according to the CIA World Factbook.
How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression Ryan McCarthy 2010
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