CIA World Factbook Country Profiles Scraper

Extract clean structured country profile data from the CIA World Factbook — the U.S. Government's authoritative open-source reference on every country and dependency on Earth. This Actor reads the community-maintained JSON mirror of the Factbook and produces one record per country with the most-used fields already extracted as named columns.

The World Factbook is consulted by analysts, journalists, educators, NGOs, market-entry teams, and AI researchers building country-aware applications. Instead of parsing 260 HTML pages or wrangling deeply nested JSON, you get a flat row-per-country dataset ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, or RAG pipelines.

Key Features

• All ~260 countries and dependencies — Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Oceania, plus the global "World" aggregate
• Pre-extracted key fields — Capital, government type, population, GDP (PPP), GDP per capita, languages, religions, currency, military expenditures, internet users, and more
• Region filter — Pull only African states, Middle East, EU, etc.
• Country code filter — Specify exact 2-letter codes (e.g., us,uk,fr,de,jp)
• No authentication required — Public data; no keys, cookies, or auth
• Direct Factbook URLs — Each record links back to the canonical CIA Factbook country page

Output Data Fields

Field	Description
countryCode	2-letter Factbook country code
countryName	Conventional short-form name
officialName	Conventional long-form name
region	Factbook region (e.g., Europe, Middle East)
capital	Capital city
governmentType	Form of government
independence	Independence date and history
area	Total land + water area
climate	Climate description
naturalResources	Listed natural resources
population	Total population (latest Factbook estimate)
languages	Languages spoken with percentages
religions	Religious composition
lifeExpectancy	Life expectancy at birth (total)
medianAge	Median age (total)
gdpPpp	Real GDP at purchasing power parity
gdpPerCapita	GDP per capita
gdpGrowth	Real GDP growth rate
inflation	Consumer price inflation rate
unemploymentRate	Unemployment rate
exports	Total exports
imports	Total imports
currency	National currency
internetUsers	Internet user count
militaryExpenditures	Military spending
factbookUrl	Link to the canonical CIA Factbook page

How to Scrape Country Profiles

1. Open the CIA Factbook Scraper on Apify Store
2. (Optional) Pick a region from the dropdown to narrow the run
3. (Optional) Enter comma-separated country codes for a custom list
4. Click Start — clean JSON, one row per country, lands in the default dataset

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing. A full all-countries extract runs in a few minutes since the underlying data lives in static JSON files on a CDN.

Use Cases

• Market entry research — Pre-screen countries by population, GDP per capita, language
• AI / RAG country-aware assistants — Embed up-to-date country facts in a knowledge base
• Risk analysis — Cross-reference government type and military expenditures
• Education & journalism — Bulk-export comparable country statistics
• Trade & supply chain — Combine with industry registries for sourcing decisions

Legal & Disclaimer

The CIA World Factbook is a publication of the U.S. Government and the underlying data is in the public domain in the United States. This Actor reads a public, community-maintained JSON mirror of that data hosted on GitHub. No authentication is bypassed. Users are responsible for compliance with any third-party hosting terms. Data is provided "as is" without warranty.