Coverage and method

Which lists are loaded, how current they are, and what is done to them between the official source and this site. An independent project, not affiliated with any government.

Loaded in the build of 2026-10-31

36,303 merged parties in total, 8,612 of them carried by more than one authority, 19,072 placed to a city. 8 of 8 lists loaded in this build.

Every list is downloaded fresh from the publishing authority each night. If a download or parse fails, that authority is marked failed here and on the map rather than quietly serving an older copy. A source whose record count drops sharply between builds is treated as a broken feed and held back, so a failed download can never look like a mass delisting.

What is done to the data

Merging. 36,303 parties on this site come from 59,597 source records. Records from different authorities are merged when their normalised names match: legal suffixes are stripped, word order is ignored for people, and two people are never merged if their published birth years conflict. 8,612 parties currently appear on more than one list. Matching is by name and is approximate; every merged party shows its separate official records so you can check.

Placement. 19,072 parties are placed at a city named in a listed address, using the GeoNames gazetteer. Parties with a country but no recognised city are spread within the country. 2,645 parties that publish no address at all are placed by inference: 2,213 from the country of their sanctions program, 60 from a curated table of where armed groups and criminal organisations operate, 372 from a country named in their record. Inferred placements are drawn hollow, labelled in the record, and can be switched off.

Name matching. Names are compared after accents are stripped and punctuation flattened, with word order ignored. Each word is weighted by how rare it is across the whole corpus, so a surname carried by hundreds of designated parties counts for little and a distinctive one counts for a lot. Words in the listed name that a query does not account for pull the score down.

Links. "Linked To" relationships are taken verbatim from OFAC remarks. No relationships are inferred.

Categories and the intensity index. The "why listed" groups and the 0 to 10 country intensity index are this site's own visualisation aids, computed from party counts, program counts and recent activity. They are not official classifications or legal assessments.

Change tracking. Additions and removals are detected by comparing each night's build with the previous one, starting from the day the site went live. Designation dates published by the EU, UK, UN, Australian and Canadian lists are shown where available; OFAC does not publish them in the feed used here.

What this is not

Not legal advice, not a compliance tool of record, and not a substitute for the official lists. A name match here means "look closer", never "this is the same person", and an empty result is not a clearance. Ownership is not resolved: a company owned at or above 50 percent by designated parties is blocked under the OFAC 50 percent rule even though it appears on no list, and it will not be found here. Confirm against the official record, linked from every party, before acting.

Reuse and attribution

The source lists are public government publications. The merged dataset is released under CC0 through the API. Attribution to SanctionScope is appreciated, not required.

Source acknowledgements: US Consolidated Screening List, International Trade Administration, US Department of Commerce. EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, European Commission, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. UK Sanctions List, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UN Security Council Consolidated List, United Nations. Consolidated List, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CC BY 4.0. Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List, Global Affairs Canada, Open Government Licence Canada. City coordinates from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.

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