Factbook fields with Country Comparisons are easily identified with a small bar chart icon to the
right of the data field title.
Not all Country Comparisons include the same number of entries because
information for a particular field is not available for all countries.
In addition, not all data fields are suitable for displaying as
Country Comparisons, such as those containing textual information. Textual
information is more readily viewed by clicking on the Field Listing
icon next
to the Data field title. The other icon next to the data field
title provides the definition of the field.
All of the Country Comparisons can be downloaded as tab-delimited
data files and can be opened in other applications such as spreadsheets
and databases. To save a Country Comparisons page in a spreadsheet, first click
on the ‘Download Datafile’ choice above the Country Comparisons
page you selected; then, at the top of your browser window, click
on 'File' and 'Save As'. After saving the file, open the spreadsheet,
find the saved file, and 'Open' it.