Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
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.
Data overview
| Entity count: | 158,448 target entities · 180,549 searchable entities · 217,384 total | ||||||
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Bulk download
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 | 183 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 20 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 225 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 40 MB |
Help: Using the data · format reference · identifier use · commercial licensing
Using the API
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. See also: OpenAPI Specification (JSON)
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
Data sources7
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) is a collection dataset which bundles together entities from the following data sources:
| Name | Country | Targets |
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| Peppercat Legislators | Global | 90,187 |
| Every Politician | Global | 73,174 |
| Peppercat World Leaders | Global | 26,517 |
| RuPEP Public Database of PEPs in Russia and Belarus | Global | 6,911 |
| CIA World Leaders | United States | 4,877 |
| Members of the European Parliament | European Union | 705 |
| Members of the European Commitee of the Regions | European Union | 623 |
External databases1
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) also includes selected details and connections from the following external databases:
| Name | Publisher |
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| Wikidata | Wikidata |
