If anyone is looking for information about Afghanistan (or any other country), then a (surprisingly) good source of up to date demographic information is given in the CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/. I have used it regularly for to help with school homework assignments and the information is significantly more up to date than information found in the local library. I would give the same warnings about the bias of information as I would from any source and I'm sure that it is possible to pull out innacuaracies and inconsistencies.

Each country is listed alphabetically and data is the same for each country, so it is possible to compare demographic (such as population size and life expectancy) and economic information (such as exports). The site does include military information that I am surprised is made available to the public but information from the site seems to appear in a slightly modified form in several other websites.

Is anyone aware of other sites with similar levels of information? Has anyone found any major innacuracies in the site?

Jo

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http://www.webarchivist.org
This is an archive site relating to the events of September 11th. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1589000/1589076.stm