From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 11:24:45 MDT
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Nathanael Allison wrote:
> I recently searched for just basic world statistics on the net. I searched
> for things like land mass, dollars per person (GNP), and population for
> countries. I found that there were major differences in basic numbers. For
> instance in the top 5 countries for land mass I came across 3 different
> orders. Economy statistics were different on the 5 different sites I checked
> out.
The best place to start is with a standard reference. I usually use
The World Factbook from the CIA:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Unfortunately they require Javascript to be enabled but at least
they have all of the countries and do provide regular updates.
Robert
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