It hasn't been a print-first publication in many years - the site was updated weekly.

It's also where a lot of the facts on Wikipedia came from. This is a real loss.

I trust CIA over official population numbers from a lot of countries. There was a thread on here recently that pointed out a lot of countries haven't conducted an effective census in many years, if at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027