Context This dataset is a snapshot of all of the country profiles provided in the World Factbook as of early 2017. The World Factbook is a reference almanac published by the United States Central Intelligence Agency on a continual basis. It is often used as a reference text in other academic works. Content This dataset includes high-level textual information on the economy, politics, demography, culture, military, and society of every country in the world. Acknowledgements This data was scraped [here](https://github.com/opendatajson/factbook.json), then concatenated into a single entity before upload to Kaggle. Inspiration This dataset is an ideal basis of comparison for various world countries. Analyzing international data? This dataset is a rich mix-in dataset for contextualizing such analyses.