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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 OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) | ||||||
| Information: | www.cia.gov | ||||||
| Source data: | www.cia.gov · JSON | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: weekly | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2025-02-15 15:39:02 | ||||||
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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 | 645.18 KB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 9.45 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 570.35 KB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 638.25 KB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 80.74 KB |
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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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| Bob FAIRWEATHER | Person | British Indian Ocean Territory | |
| Bart DE WEVER | Person | Belgium | |
| Nishi DHOLAKIA | Person | British Indian Ocean Territory | |
| Michael MARTIN | Person | Ireland | |
| Bruno ANDRE | Person | St. Pierre & Miquelon | |
| Isabelle Berro-Amedei | Person | Monaco | |
| ’Aisake Valu EKE | Person | Tonga | |
| Nikolao PULA | Person | American Samoa | |
| Joseph AOUN | Person | Lebanon | |
| Américo d'Oliveira DOS RAMOS | Person | São Tomé & Príncipe | |
| Alcide PONGA | Person | New Caledonia | |
| Jenniffer GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN | Person | Puerto Rico | |
| Sam Hou FAI | Person | Macao SAR China | |
| Muhammad al-BASHIR | Person | Syria | |
| Dharam Gokhool | Person | Mauritius |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.