The official CIA World Factbook website is: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Someone named Photius Coutsoukis has converted all the numerical data from the current and past World Factbooks, into Excel spreadsheets. His data can be found at: http://immigration-usa.com/wfb
We are also hosting his versions of this year's Excel spreadsheets and you can download them here.
These numerical tables have also been imported already into our centralized MySQL database. They are the tables cia_communications, cia_economy, cia_geography, cia_military, cia_population, cia_transportation, and cia_countries.
Lisa's team has also converted the textual as well as numerical data (in textual form) from the current World Factbook into an Excel spreadsheet, and this has been imorted into our MySQL database as well, with table name cia.
To browse the MySQL database, download CocoaMySQL for OS X.
To connect to the MySQL database, you'll need to enter this information either into CocoaMySQL or into your PHP script:
Host: ntdb.linkedbyair.net
Username: (see printed syllabus)
Password: (see printed syllabus)
Database: nt