We study the pointwise perturbations of countable Markov maps with infinitely many inverse branches and establish the following continuity theorem: Let T k and T be expanding countable Markov maps such that the inverse branches of T k converge pointwise to the inverse branches of T as k → ∞. Then under suitable regularity assumptions on the maps T k and T the following limit exists:where θ k is the topological conjugacy between T k and T and dim H stands for the Hausdorff dimension. This is in contrast with the fact that other natural quantities measuring the singularity of θ k fail to be continuous in this manner under pointwise convergence such as the Hölder exponent of θ k or the Hausdorff dimension dim H (µ•θ k ) for the preimage of the absolutely continuous invariant measure µ for T . As an application we obtain a perturbation theorem in non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamics for conjugacies between intermittent Manneville-Pomeau maps x → x + x 1+α mod 1 when varying the parameter α.