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>>mxfh+(OP)
It made sense in an age of print. But in the era of Wikipedia it's not really needed anymore. If you want population statistics or whatever, Wikipedia will tell you and link to the country's own official metrics. You don't need the CIA to collate it all for you.

And, as multiple commenters here have noted, it's on the Internet Archive. So let's just cherish it as another print tradition that would inevitably end.

>>crazyg+oF
> It made sense in an age of print.

Reading books is still important. That has nothing to do with the CIA factbook website edition.

Archiving copies of internet-published information is important, especially when a regime lies, tries to rewrite history, and destroys knowledge and public resources regularly.

> So let's just cherish it as another print tradition that would inevitably end

Self-fulfilling prophecy, learned-helplessness doomer fallacy. It only ended because some assholes ended it.