How weekly data refresh works
A concise overview of how WorldFactbook.io aggregates World Bank, IMF, UN, and Freedom House metrics into country rows.
- data
- methodology
Country pages combine a baseline narrative structure (geography, government, military, and similar sections) with numeric indicators that we refresh on a schedule.
Pipeline outline
- Core profile JSON — sourced from the open Factbook JSON corpus.
- Macro series — World Bank and IMF series matched by ISO codes where possible.
- Governance and rights — Freedom House and related indices where we have a confident country match.
Why matches sometimes fail
Some Factbook entities are territories, dependencies, or disputed regions without a clean ISO mapping. In those cases headline metrics may show as em dashes (—) until we add a manual mapping.
| Source | Typical use |
|---|---|
| World Bank | GDP, population |
| IMF | Growth, debt |
| Freedom House | Democracy score |
We log source sync timestamps on the site so you can see when a row was last touched.
If you spot a systematic mismatch, open an issue on the project repository with the country slug and the field you care about.