worldFactbook
This database contains detailed information about 274 recognized entities (countries, territories and oceans) and includes geographical, political, economic, demographic, sociological, environmental and military data, among other topics.
For easier use, the information is classified in 9 categories and 140 topics.
worldFactbook files available for purchase
| Name | Delivery | License | Last update | Price (without updates) |
Price (including 1-year updates) |
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| worldFactbook LT - World | download | single | April 30, 2009 | € 79.99 EUR | € 127.98 EUR |
| All of our databases include free unlimited e-mail support. | |||||
The default license includes the right to use the data on one (1) server (website, intranet...), and does not authorize redistribution or integration into products to be distributed (CMS, software application,...)
Please contact us if you need to use the data on multiple projects (discounts available), want redistributing rights or simply have questions about our License Agreement and the authorized uses.
worldFactbook database features
| Feature | LT | ||
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| Background information about the country |  | ||
| Government data: country leaders, political parties, administrative divisions, capital, legal system,... | | ||
| Population data, birth and death rates, religions, languages, literacy, diseases, etc... | | ||
| Economic data: production, consumption, imports/exports of oil, electricity and natural gas; labor force, inflation rate, GDP, etc... | | ||
| Geographical data: location, area, elevation extremes, land use, environmental issues, natural resources and hazards, terrain, etc... | | ||
| Transportation data: airports, ports, roadways, railways, pipelines, etc... | | ||
| Communications data: internet, telephony (landlines and cellulars), radio, television, etc... | | ||
| Military data: military branches, manpower, expenditures, etc... | | ||
| Transnational issues: illicit drugs, refugees, human trafficking, international disputes | | ||
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worldFactbook database structure
Having comprehensive and accurate data is good, but if it's not well structured, it might not be very useful. That's why not only worldFactbook, but all of our databases are structured in a very efficient way, which is a compromise between usability and database normalization (which do not always meet the same requirements). This results in very easy to use data, and the possibility to retrieve all the details for specific records with very simple and fast queries.
For easier maintenance, we also assigned a unique identification number to each feature. It is thus possible to store that number to refer to a particular feature, no matter the language used to display the name.
Click here to view the full structure of each table and detailed descriptions of their fields.
Requirements and files information
The worldFactbook data is available in text files (tab delimited) encoded in Unicode (UTF-8). It can therefore be imported in virtually any database, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc... The only requirements are that you have enough free space on you hard drive to store the files and that you can import those files into your database.
For faster download, files are compressed in ZIP format.
- worldFactbook LT files:
- worldFactbook LT - World - worldFactbook.zip (1.27 MB, compressed)
