A politically exposed person (PEP) is a person that has been entrusted with a prominent public function. PEPs include elected officials, members of government.
Integrating data about political actors is an essential step in making an open source due diligence database. However, it is a much more intricate task than collecting sanctions lists (of which there are only a few dozen), and fully addressing it will be the focus of a later stage of this project.
At present, OpenSanctions relies mainly on the efforts of the now-defunct EveryPolitician project to include law makers from many countries.
| Entity count: | 187,042 target entities · 201,162 searchable entities · 234,393 total | ||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 128 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 27 MB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 105 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 141 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 41 MB |
Help: Using the data · format reference · identifier use · commercial licensing
You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) is a collection dataset which bundles together entities from the following data sources:
| Name | Country | Targets |
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| Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons | 129,565 | |
| Every Politician | 73,173 | |
| RuPEP Public Database of PEPs in Russia and Belarus | Russia | 9,503 |
| CIA World Leaders | United States | 5,686 |
| Members of the European Parliament | European Union | 705 |
| Members of the European Commitee of the Regions | European Union | 624 |
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) also includes selected details and connections from the following external databases:
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| Wikidata | Wikidata |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.
