Sanctions Universe — Composition & Growth
How much of the active US and EU sanctions universe was added since 2022?
As of June 2026, 15,172 of the 25,954 active designations across the U.S. OFAC SDN list (snapshot 2026-06-18) and the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List (snapshot 2026-06-05) — 58.5% — carry a designation date on or after 1 January 2022. The active sanctions map is now majority post-invasion: the OFAC share since 2022 is 56.4%, the EU share 65.3%. These are gross listing counts across two lists; no party is named and no cross-list identity match is made.
Key findings
active sanctions designations sit across the two lists — 19,960 OFAC SDN/Consolidated listings (snapshot 2026-06-18) and 5,994 EU FSF entries (snapshot 2026-06-05).
of every active designation — 15,172 of 25,954 — carries a designation date on or after 1 January 2022. The active sanctions map is now majority post-invasion.
OFAC listings fall under RUSSIA-EO14024 (Russia, E.O. 14024) — the single largest program; the EU's largest regime, Ukraine/Russia, holds 2,722.
vessels (1,499) and aircraft (344) are named individually on the OFAC list — physical assets the EU list does not enumerate as parties at all.
designations made OFAC's busiest year on record (2024); the EU's busiest year was 2022 (1,508), the year of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
distinct primary references underlie OFAC's 19,960 listings — a party can appear on more than one OFAC sub-list, so this study counts listings, not deduplicated identities.
At a glance
Composition by party type
How each list classifies the parties it designates. Party types are mutually exclusive within a list, so shares sum to 100%. The OFAC list is the only one of the two that enumerates physical assets — vessels and aircraft — as designated parties in their own right.
| List | Party type | Designations | Share of list |
|---|---|---|---|
| OFAC SDN/Consolidated | Entity | 10,475 | 52.5% |
| OFAC SDN/Consolidated | Individual | 7,642 | 38.3% |
| OFAC SDN/Consolidated | Vessel | 1,499 | 7.5% |
| OFAC SDN/Consolidated | Aircraft | 344 | 1.7% |
| EU FSF | Person | 4,405 | 73.5% |
| EU FSF | Entity | 1,589 | 26.5% |
Across both lists combined: 12,047 individuals/persons, 12,064 entities, and 1,843 vessels and aircraft. These add listings from two separate registries; they are not a deduplicated headcount of distinct parties.
The post-2022 surge — designations by year
EU designations jumped from 260 in 2021 to 1,508 in 2022; OFAC from 846 to 2,468. Counts for 2026 are year-to-date as of each list's snapshot and are still accruing.
| Designation year | OFAC | EU | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,014 | 493 | 186 | 679 |
| 2,015 | 554 | 86 | 640 |
| 2,016 | 663 | 123 | 786 |
| 2,017 | 585 | 107 | 692 |
| 2,018 | 1,197 | 125 | 1,322 |
| 2,019 | 726 | 51 | 777 |
| 2,020 | 721 | 362 | 1,083 |
| 2,021 | 846 | 260 | 1,106 |
| 2,022 | 2,468 | 1,508 | 3,976 |
| 2,023 | 2,613 | 764 | 3,377 |
| 2,024 | 3,292 | 697 | 3,989 |
| 2,025 | 2,189 | 720 | 2,909 |
| 2,026 | 694 | 227 | 921 |
Top OFAC programs
The legal authority each OFAC listing is attached to, ranked by the number of listings citing it. Program codes are shown exactly as OFAC publishes them. A single listing can carry more than one program, so these counts are not mutually exclusive and do not sum to the list total.
| Program | Authority | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| RUSSIA-EO14024 | Russia harmful foreign activities (E.O. 14024) | 6,567 |
| SDGT | Specially Designated Global Terrorist | 3,160 |
| IFSR | Iran financial sanctions regulations | 1,532 |
| SDNTK | Narcotics trafficking kingpin | 1,400 |
| NPWMD | Weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferators | 1,167 |
| UKRAINE-EO13662 | Russia / Ukraine (E.O. 13662) | 1,108 |
| IRAN-EO13902 | Iran (E.O. 13902) | 805 |
| GLOMAG | Global Magnitsky human-rights & corruption | 740 |
| IRAN | Iran sanctions | 674 |
| ILLICIT-DRUGS-EO14059 | Illicit drug trafficking (E.O. 14059) | 634 |
Top EU regimes
The EU sanctions regime each entry falls under, ranked by entries. Regime codes are shown exactly as the EU FSF publishes them; the Ukraine/Russia territorial-integrity regime is more than three times the size of the next-largest.
| Regime | Scope | Entries |
|---|---|---|
| UKR | Russia / Ukraine territorial integrity | 2,722 |
| IRN | Iran | 711 |
| SYR | Syria | 380 |
| BLR | Belarus | 372 |
| TAQA | ISIL (Da'esh) & Al-Qaida | 337 |
| PRK | North Korea (DPRK) | 255 |
| HR | Global human-rights sanctions regime | 170 |
| AFG | Afghanistan | 140 |
| MMR | Myanmar (Burma) | 128 |
| COD | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 86 |
What this counts — and what it does not
- Listings, not identities. The combined 25,954is the sum of two separate registries' active rows. OFAC's 19,960 listings resolve to 19,427 distinct primary references, because one party can sit on more than one OFAC sub-list. We never merge a row on one list with a row on the other.
- No cross-list identity match.Each row keeps its own list's composite key. A person sanctioned by both the U.S. and the EU is counted once per list; this study makes no claim that any OFAC party is the same legal person as any EU party.
- Active slice only. Both source tables are bitemporal; every count here is the current published slice (valid_to is null). Delisted parties age off and are not counted.
Methodology
The study aggregates the current bitemporal slice of two source tables in the fonteum-platform warehouse: public.ofac_sdn_listings (the OFAC SDN + Consolidated lists, parsed from the Advanced Sanctions XML, snapshot 2026-06-18) and public.eu_sanctions_listings (the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List / FSF, snapshot 2026-06-05). Each table is filtered to valid_to IS NULL and grouped four ways: by party_type, by the year of the designation date (listing_date for OFAC, designation_date for the EU), by OFAC programs (unnested), and by EU programme. Every published figure is re-derivable from the SQL sidecar below, whose expected-result comments match the committed JSON snapshot exactly.
The two source feeds refresh daily and each snapshot is content-hashed and witness co-signed; the designation-date fields are taken verbatim from the published lists. A small number of OFAC rows carry a program set with more than one authority, so the program table counts listing–program pairs and is not mutually exclusive.
Reproduce it
Re-derive every figure on this page from the published artifacts:
- Reproducible SQL — the exact GROUP BY queries, with expected-result comments.
- Download JSON · Download CSV — the committed composition snapshot.
Re-check the source snapshots
Every figure here traces to a signed source snapshot, not our word for it. Each daily OFAC and EU pull is content-hashed and co-signed; you can re-hash the published bytes against the attestation yourself.
Re-check a snapshot → — re-hash any Fonteum snapshot and confirm the bytes match the chained attestation.
How to cite this
Fonteum (2026). The US + EU Sanctions Universe: Composition & Growth. Derived from OFAC SDN (snapshot 2026-06-18) and the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List (snapshot 2026-06-05). https://fonteum.com/gov/research/us-eu-sanctions-list-growth-2026
Canonical URL: https://fonteum.com/gov/research/us-eu-sanctions-list-growth-2026 · License: U.S. Government Works (public domain; 17 U.S.C. §105)
Act on the lists, and related evidence
- Sanctions & exclusion list monitoring — screen a roster against the live lists →
- Federal Suspension & Debarment Scorecard — the US exclusion registry, ranked →
- The Leakage Report — contracts awarded during an active exclusion →
- Federal records questions, answered →
- Government records evidence — all studies →
Limitations
- This is a count of active listings on the date of each snapshot, not a historical time series of every designation ever made. Delisted parties are not in the current slice and are not counted.
- The combined total adds two separate registries' rows. It is a gross listing count, not a deduplicated headcount of distinct sanctioned parties, and no party on one list is matched to a party on the other.
- Designation-year counts use each list's published date field as-is; the most recent year is partial (year-to-date as of the snapshot) and still accruing.
- Program and regime labels are descriptive expansions for readability; the authoritative value is the raw code shown alongside, exactly as the source publishes it.
- A designation count is an administrative fact about the published list on the date queried, not a judgment about any party. Confirm any specific party's current status at the official source.
Sources
Two primary government sanctions sources. The OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists are U.S. Treasury public records (U.S. Government Works, public domain); the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List is published by the European Commission under CC-BY-4.0.
Source: U.S. Treasury OFAC — Specially Designated Nationals & Consolidated Sanctions lists, snapshot 2026-06-18. Public domain (U.S. Government Works). Confirm a party's current status at sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →
Source: European Commission — EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List (FSF), snapshot 2026-06-05. Licensed CC-BY-4.0. Confirm a party's current status at the EU Sanctions Map (sanctionsmap.eu). Confirm current status at SAM.gov →
Frequently asked questions
How many entities and individuals are on the US and EU sanctions lists?
As of the June 2026 snapshots, the two lists together held 25,954 active designations: 19,960 listings on the U.S. OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists (snapshot 2026-06-18) and 5,994 entries on the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List / FSF (snapshot 2026-06-05). These are counts of listings, not deduplicated identities — a party can appear on both lists and on more than one OFAC sub-list — so the combined figure is a gross total, and no cross-list identity match is asserted.
How much of the sanctions list was added since 2022?
15,172 of the 25,954 active designations (58.5%) carry a designation date on or after 1 January 2022. On the OFAC list that share is 56.4% (11,256 of 19,960); on the EU list it is 65.3% (3,916 of 5,994). Both lists inflected sharply in 2022, the year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
What is the largest sanctions program?
On the OFAC list, RUSSIA-EO14024 — Russia-related designations under Executive Order 14024 — is the single largest program, attached to 6,567 listings, ahead of SDGT (3,160) and IFSR (1,532). On the EU list, the Ukraine/Russia territorial-integrity regime is largest at 2,722 entries. A single listing can carry more than one program, so program counts are not mutually exclusive.
Does this study identify any sanctioned person or company?
No. Every figure is an aggregate count — by list, party type, designation year, and program or regime. No sanctioned individual, entity, vessel, or aircraft is named anywhere on this page or in its downloads. To check whether a specific party is currently designated, search the official OFAC and EU sources linked below; a designation status changes over time, so always confirm at the source.
How can I reproduce these numbers?
Every figure is re-derivable in Postgres from the published SQL (linked on this page) against the public.ofac_sdn_listings and public.eu_sanctions_listings tables, each filtered to its current bitemporal slice (valid_to IS NULL). The SQL is plain GROUP BY aggregation with expected-result comments that match the committed JSON snapshot exactly. Each source snapshot is content-hashed and witness co-signed, and can be re-checked against its signed attestation.