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UN Security Council Consolidated List

UN Security Council sanctions designations for building bounded screening alerts that stay inside list-matching limits.

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At a glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Tiny · ≤0.02 GB
Formats
XML, HTML
Access
Download
API key
Not required
Provider
United Nations Security Council
Updates
Continuous
Data terms
United Nations website terms of use

From source to product signal

Test a product idea in four steps

The Security Council publishes a consolidated XML list of designated individuals and entities. Start with exact primary names. A string match is not a confirmed hit, aliases matter, and this list is not OFAC or a complete global sanctions product.

1

Check the setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • A notebook environment such as Jupyter or Google Colab
  • An internet connection
2

Access the data

  1. 1.Open the consolidated list page and locate the English XML download.
  2. 2.Load INDIVIDUAL and ENTITY records from the XML.
  3. 3.Keep DATAID, first and last names or entity name, and listed-on date.
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3

Run the Python example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install pandas lxml

import pandas as pd

xml = pd.read_xml(
    "https://scsanctions.un.org/resources/xml/en/consolidated.xml",
    xpath=".//INDIVIDUAL",
)
xml["retrieved_at_utc"] = pd.Timestamp.now(tz="UTC")
print(xml.head())
4

Test a useful signal

Build an exact-name UN list lookup

Test whether primary individual names can support a bounded screening prototype.

  1. 01Load individuals and keep DATAID plus first and last name fields.
  2. 02Compare a short authorized name list using exact uppercase matching only.
  3. 03Explain that aliases, transliteration, and entity records require the rest of the XML and that a match is not a legal determination.

Dataset details

United Nations Security Council is an intergovernmental source. Last verified 2026-08-18. Temporal coverage: currently listed designations with historical updates.

Theme

Government & Policy

Domains

RegulationComplianceFinance

Data types

Registry DataTabular

Tasks

AlertingSearchCompliance Monitoring

Geography

Global

Formats

XMLHTML

Provider

United Nations Security Council

Data terms

United Nations website terms of use