Author: tmtm

As ever with projects like this, it’s quite tricky to define the scope, particularly what we class as a country. Here we’re going to take the simplest, and generally narrowest, definition: every UN Member State. This is certainly a contentious definition, and there are quite a few high profile omissions from this. But that’s the scope we’re working with.

In Wikidata terms that’s quite a simple list to generate:

https://gist.github.com/tmtmtmtm/62c0c4ae36a58fbc666f5be9de8549a3

This gives us the 193 members we expect.

How complete and consistent is Wikidata’s information on who the Heads of Government have been for every country in the world? Let’s investigate and see…