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 and members of government.

Who is running the world? Collecting information about PEPs is a complex task. We provide detailed information on our global data coverage and technical methodology.

This collection contains data about politically exposed persons (PEPs) from multiple sources. We include lists of office-holders both directly from official sources like governments and also from third-party sources that have been aggregated by other organizations.

Data overview

Entities:

Total	1,487,017
Searchable	711,763
Targets	469,814

Entity types:

People	515,194
Positions	192,383
Legal entities	2,347
Companies	1,527
Organizations	215
Addresses	97

Countries:

251 countries · Show overview...

Coverage:

added 2021-12-01 · update frequency: daily · every 12 hours

Last processed:

2024-10-15 12:27:03

Last change:

2024-10-15

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
`entities.ftm.json`	FollowTheMoney entities	610.12 MB
`names.txt`	Target names text file	20.12 MB
`pep-positions.json`	PEP position occupancy summary (Early preview)	22.49 MB
`senzing.json`	Senzing entity format	463.16 MB
`targets.nested.json`	Targets as nested JSON	815.71 MB
`targets.simple.csv`	Targets as simplified CSV	96.52 MB

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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.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the `/search` endpoint:
For entity matching, use the `/match` endpoint:

Data sources51

Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) is a collection which bundles together entities from 51 data sources. See the source browser for more details...

	Country	Entities
Argentina Members of Parliament	Argentina	258
Armenia Public Officials and Associates	Armenia	8,600
Austria Public Officials	Austria	1,687
Brazil Politically Exposed Persons	Brazil	134,690
Cayman Islands Members of Parliament	Caymans	62
Cayman Islands Senior Judicial Officers	Caymans	20
China National People's Congress on Wikipedia	Global	2,945
Colombian Joining the Dots PEPs	Colombia	188
Colombian PEP Declarations	Colombia	16,303
Croatia State Registry of Public Officials	Croatia	4,973
Cuba Members of the Parliament	Cuba	471
Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland PEPs	Denmark	1,891
Estonia Members of the Riigikogu	Estonia	102
EU Prominent Public Functions	European Union	1,392
European Commitee of the Regions Members	European Union	926
European Parliament Members	European Union	934
Every Politician		58,914
French Mayors	France	69,782
French National Assembly	France	3,891
French Senators	France	903
Georgia Public Official Asset Declarations	Georgia	23,257
German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch	Germany	2,640
Hong Kong Legislative Council Members	Hong Kong	188
Hong Kong Principal Officials	Hong Kong	52
Iceland parliament	Iceland	64
Indonesia 2018 Regional Head Election Results	Indonesia	652
Israel Knesset Members	Israel	456
Latvian Saeima	Latvia	101
Lithuania Members of the Seimas	Lithuania	139
Lithuania PEPs from the register of private interests	Lithuania	66,614
Mexico Chamber of Deputies	Mexico	501
Mexico Governors	Mexico	89
Mexico Senate	Mexico	129
Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives	Nigeria	4,403
Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper	Nigeria	40,808
North Macedonia Elected and Appointed Officials	North Macedonia	10,328
PEPs from Chile Interest and Asset Declarations	Chile	7,239
Slovenian Political Officials from Zvezoskop	Slovenia	372
South Africa Municipal Leadership	South Africa	1,538
South Africa National and Provincial Legislators	South Africa	1,876
Türkiye Grand National Assembly	Türkiye	594
UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs		1,047
Uruguayan Politically Exposed Persons (PEP)	Uruguay	6,814
US CIA World Factbook Heads of State and Government	United States	920
US CIA World Leaders	United States	11,037
US Legislators by Plural (formerly OpenStates)	United States	11,522
US Members of the Congress	United States	1,261
US Navy Leadership	United States	597
US State Department Senior Officials	United States	601
Venezuela Members of the National Assembly	Venezuela	274
Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons		246,313

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