The Magna Factbook

The Magna Factbook is 195 country profiles on a living world map. Every country on Earth is decoded the same way — its land, its people, its money, its energy, its power. Click any country to open its profile.

Each country profile is re-read every month against primary sources, and profiles are refreshed in full at the start of each month. The hub page carries the latest update date — October 2026 at the time of writing. Data points carry the year reported by their source, so the vintage of every figure is visible.

Profiles are re-read against primary sources: the CIA World Factbook, the World Bank, the IMF and national statistics. Where international sources are incomplete, national statistics fill the gap. The Methodology page lists every principal source with the vintage year of the data used.

Each profile covers a country’s land, people, money, energy and power, read the same way across all 195 nations. It also carries tracked changes and links to related Bureau articles and investigations. The profile panel opens when you select a country on the map or in search.

Click any country on the interactive world map, or type its name in the search box — Morocco, Indonesia, Brazil, for example. You can also filter by region with the region chips above the map. Every country on Earth is covered.

Each data point carries the year reported by its source, so figures are never presented as more current than they are. Source-reported years vary by indicator — for example GDP is generally 2024 estimates and population 2025 estimates. The Methodology page lists the vintage year for every principal source.

The Factbook is a reference work: one in-depth profile per country, for looking up what a country is. The Rankings are comparative: every nation scored 0 to 100 across nine components of national power, for seeing how countries stand against each other. The two are linked — a Factbook profile connects to the same country’s ranking.