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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.
This dataset is no longer available. On February 4, 2026, the CIA announced it would discontinue the World Factbook after decades of publication. Read their farewell message here.
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| Publisher: | Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · United States | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets | ||||||
| Information: | www.cia.gov | ||||||
| Source data: | www.cia.gov · JSON | ||||||
| Tags: | list.pep | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · current until · frequency: not automated | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-02-11 11:24:22 · v. 20260211112422-hty | ||||||
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| Errors: | 1 Error | ||||||
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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| Col. Mamady DOUMBOUYA | Person | Guinea | |
| Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel OUEDRAOGO | Person | Burkina Faso | |
| Marc DIDIO | Person | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | |
| Stanley JOHN | Person | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |
| Andrea Patricia CLAUSEN | Person | Falkland Islands | |
| Colin MARTIN-REYNOLDS | Person | Falkland Islands | |
| Fatafehi FAKAFANUA | Person | Tonga | |
| Adylbek KASYMALIYEV | Person | Kyrgyzstan | |
| Jeffrey Davidson BOSTIC | Person | Barbados | |
| Gen. Horta Nta Na MAN | Person | Guinea-Bissau | |
| Godwin Friday | Person | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Canada | |
| GUILLAUME | Person | Luxembourg | |
| Superior Jean-François de MANHEULLE | Person | Wallis and Futuna | |
| Shawn CHRISTIAN | Person | Pitcairn | |
| Alexandru Munteanu | Person | Romania · United States · Moldova |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.