---
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: "ProofAML — Global PEP Census Dataset"
tags:
  - pep
  - politically-exposed-persons
  - fatf
  - enhanced-due-diligence
  - edd
  - government-officials
  - parliament-data
  - open-government-data
  - rag-grounding
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
  - other
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
---

# ProofAML — Global PEP Census Dataset

**Research snapshot — not current data; production sanctions screening requires a live, monitored feed.**

> **Erratum — version 2026-08-24-rev1 is a corrected re-issue that supersedes the original 2026-08-24 release, which is withdrawn and must not be used. Sources lacking a confirmed public-redistribution license were removed (license-compliance remediation, ADR-113); the full current exclusion list is in this bundle's manifest.json "excluded" array.**

> 50,728 politically exposed persons, all official government sources, zero Wikidata.

A type-axis segment of the ProofAML corpus (`global-pep-census`): **17 sources, 50,728 entity records** (version `2026-08-24-rev1`), cut from the same emitter run as the master snapshot and governed by the same terms.

## Why this segment

This is the deliverable that operationalizes the existing "Global PEP Census" flagship narrative page as an actual downloadable, separately-citable bundle. Reuses the existing brand name rather than inventing a second, competing "PEP dataset" concept. No sanctions/wanted/watchlist rows at all — pure PEP, which is the entire point (a PEP flag is a classification requiring enhanced due diligence, never a designation, per the product's own sanctions/PEP bifurcation). All sources are official government or intergovernmental publications; no crowdsourced (Wikidata) data.

## Overlap disclosure

This dataset overlaps with other ProofAML segment datasets and the master snapshot — entities are not unique to this file. See https://proofaml.com/sources/ for the full corpus and the other available segments.

Machine-readable in `manifest.json`: `isPartOf: "master"`, `partitionGroup: "type"`, `overlapsWith: ["master", "canada-sanctions-watchlist-pep", "eu-sanctions-pep", "uk-sanctions-watchlist-pep", "us-sanctions-watchlist-pep"]`.

## License

- The **compilation/resolution layer** is licensed by ProofAML under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
- **Every individual record** also carries its own upstream publisher's license (CC BY 4.0; other source-specific terms (see NOTICE); EU Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; France Licence Ouverte / Etalab; CC BY 3.0 (IGO); Nordic NLOD; UK Open Parliament Licence v3; US public domain (17 U.S.C. §105); CC0 public-domain dedication) — **not** relicensed by ProofAML. See the bundle's `NOTICE` file for the full per-source breakdown.
- Fail-closed: sources without a confirmed public-redistribution license are excluded entirely (see `manifest.json`'s `excluded` array).

## Citation

```
ProofAML — https://proofaml.com — "ProofAML Global PEP Census Dataset Snapshot 2026-08-24-rev1"
```

## Part of the full ProofAML corpus

- Part of the full ProofAML corpus — the master ProofAML Sanctions & PEP Watchlist Snapshot (118,620 entities across 56 sources): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22115768
- ProofAML: https://proofaml.com
- Full per-source license map and the live corpus: https://proofaml.com/sources/