CIA World Factbook
Geography:
Vital resource of water
Total Renewable Water Sources, Freshwater Withdrawal
Area (sq km)
Population (sq km)
Roadways (km)
Railways (km)
Waterways (km)
Economy:
Purchasing power parity (GDP)
Per capita GDP (PPP)
Debg – external
Globalization:
Airports
Exports
Imports
Telephones i.e. main lines in use
Telephones i.e. mobile cellular
Internet hosts
Internet users
Resources:
Electricity production kWh
Electricity consumption kWh
Oil production (bbl/day)
Oil consumption (bbl/day)
Oil imports (bbl/day)
Oil exports (bbl/day)
Oil proved reserves (bbl)
Health:
Life expectancy at birth
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)
Environment, current issues
via CIA World Factbook Field Listing – Environment – current issues
e.g. Argentina – environmental problems (urban and rural) typical of an industrializing economy such as deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, air pollution, and water pollution
note: Argentina is a world leader in setting voluntary greenhouse gas targets
Area comparisons
Field Listing – Area – comparative
e.g. Chad – slightly more than three times the size of California
Rank Order pages are presorted lists of data from selected Factbook data fields.
All of the ‘Rank Order’ pages can be downloaded as tab-delimited data files and can be opened in other applications such as spreadsheets and databases.