The Factbook Topic Map on topicmapsforge was extended by economic data from the CIA World Factbook. The enhanced version now offers the following additional data: Gross domestic product, growth rate of GDP, growth rate of industrial production, unemployment rate, and inflation rate.

The update also adds information on natural resources. Unlike the website of the CIA, topicmapsforge.org provides information on natural resources in a subject-oriented way. This means, that any country mentioned in relation to a particular natural resource can be retrieved with a single mouse click. The same kind of transparency is also provided with respect to religions.

The Factbook Map provides a particularly good data store for exploration with PivotViewer - the graphical tool for filtering and selection. Have a look at a grouping of countries by inflation rates. There are countries with more than 30% inflation rate. In countries with annual per capita income above 20.000 $, however no inflation rates above 12% are reported, as the corresponding country distribution shows.