An index of most national-level heads of state and heads of government in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.
This dataset makes the "chief of state", as labeled here, and head of government, available for all countries in the World Factbook which have such roles.
Where a monarch has a local representative of e.g. an ex-colony, both the monarch and any local representatives are generally included.
The World Factbook source pages contain much more narrative about each country. From the website:
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
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| Publisher: | Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (United States) | ||||||
| Collections: | in Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) · OpenSanctions Default | ||||||
| Information: | www.cia.gov | ||||||
| Source data: | www.cia.gov · JSON | ||||||
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| Last checked: | · updated daily | ||||||
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 | 816.43 KB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 12.92 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 260.67 KB | |
statistics.json | Dataset statistics | 21.06 KB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 828.46 KB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 127.98 KB |
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: |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Jane OWEN | Person | Cayman Islands | |
| Juliana O'CONNOR-CONNOLLY | Person | Cayman Islands | |
| Joachim KYLEM DE TAMBELA | Person | Burkina Faso | |
| Luc FRIEDEN | Person | Luxembourg | |
| Xavier BETTEL | Person | Luxembourg | |
| Lívia VASAKOVA | Person | Slovakia | |
| Robert FICO | Person | Slovakia | |
| KHALID bin Muhammad Al-Nuhayyan | Person | United Arab Emirates | |
| Munipoese MULI'AKA'AKA | Person | Wallis & Futuna | |
| Bajram BEGAJ | Person | Albania | |
| Sr. Gen. MIN AUNG HLAING | Person | Myanmar (Burma) | |
| Fernando VERGEZ ALZAGA | Person | Vatican City | |
| XI Jinping | Person | Hong Kong SAR China | |
| Khalid al-FADIL | Person | Kuwait | |
| Sheikh TALAL al-Khalid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah | Person | Kuwait |
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