List of countries by incarceration rate explained

This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each.[1]

Incarceration rates and counts

The World Prison Brief (WPB) may or may not incorporate juvenile incarceration numbers into the totals for each country, dependent territory, or subnational area. The data below is the latest available at WPB at the time the data was copied here. See the individual WPB country and subnational area pages for more info on data, dates, juvenile numbers, and much more.[1] See the Notes section below too. It has info on the United Kingdom, etc..

Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in LOCATION" or "Crime in LOCATION" links.
Note: Table data fully updated Oct 22, 2024. Some individual countries since then.
Note: See N/A definition. "Not available" in this case.
Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants.Counts are the number of incarcerated.

+Incarceration counts and rates (per 100,000). World Prison BriefLocation[2] [3]
Afghanistan4519,000
Albania1684,565
Algeria21794,749
American Samoa (USA)538301
Andorra6051
Angola6824,490
Anguilla (United Kingdom)24036
Antigua and Barbuda400400
Argentina254117,810
Armenia832,469
Aruba (Netherlands)288311
Australia15741,929
Austria1019,275
Azerbaijan24424,698
Bahamas4091,617
Bahrain2343,485
Bangladesh5084,851
Barbados258743
Belarus34532,556
Belgium10412,316
Belize2891,199
Benin13818,170
Bermuda (United Kingdom)200124
Bhutan1451,119
Bolivia20925,291
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation791,688
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska44524
Botswana1613,971
Brazil392850,377
Brunei Darussalam186841
Bulgaria996,378
Burkina Faso398,800
Burundi10313,824
Cambodia25745,122
Cameroon11632,003
Canada9035,485
Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)3662,100
Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)277226
Central African Republic522,678
Chad598,700
Chile30658,248
China1191,690,000
Colombia200103,530
Comoros46422
Congo (Republic of)271,388
Cook Islands (New Zealand)22447
Costa Rica34317,829
Cote d'Ivoire9125,928
Croatia1154,445
Cuba79490,000
Curaçao (Netherlands)261429
Cyprus (Republic of)103966
Czech Republic17919,649
Democratic Republic of Congo 4644,536
Denmark694,083
Djibouti71
Dominica348261
Dominican Republic23125,987
Ecuador18033,472
Egypt116120,000
El Salvador1 659109,519
Equatorial Guinea63500
Estonia1291,805
Eswatini/Swaziland2433,405
Ethiopia99110,000
Faeroe Islands (Denmark)2312
Fiji2482,276
Finland522,912
France11578,509
French Guiana/Guyane (France)3101,022
French Polynesia (France)200575
Gabon2285,226
Gambia22543
Georgia27510,523
Germany6857,955
Ghana4214,361
Gibraltar (United Kingdom)27392
Greece9810,242
Greenland (Denmark)241136
Grenada338385
Guadeloupe (France)230916
Guam (USA)475820
Guatemala12323,361
Guernsey (United Kingdom)14395
Guinea (Republic of)344,375
Guinea Bissau31596
Guyana2712,156
Haiti637,523
Honduras18919,500
Hong Kong (China)1219,079
Hungary19218,270
Iceland35140
India41573,220
Indonesia96273,541
Iran228189,000
Iraq17973,715
Ireland, Republic of914,964
Isle of Man (United Kingdom)153132
Israel21719,756
Italy10561,758
Jamaica1253,559
Japan3340,881
Jersey (United Kingdom)135146
Jordan18519,140
Kazakhstan18435,228
Kenya10360,000
Kiribati113129
Kosovo/Kosova991,830
Kuwait1014,500
Kyrgyzstan1177,633
Laos16611,885
Latvia1753,271
Lebanon1419,254
Lesotho1042,216
Liberia553,000
Libya26919,103
Liechtenstein3514
Lithuania1564,551
Luxembourg89600
Macau (China)1961,345
Madagascar10130,530
Malawi7616,366
Malaysia24182,144
Maldives3141,700
Mali408,670
Malta119671
Marshall Islands6635
Martinique (France)2751,025
Mauritania572,826
Mauritius2152,755
Mayotte (France)205616
Mexico174233,687
Micronesia, Federated States of127132
Moldova (Republic of)2355,695
Monaco8131
Mongolia1835,832
Montenegro1701,046
Morocco267102,653
Mozambique6321,814
Myanmar (formerly Burma)183100,324
Namibia3188,900
Nauru34538
Nepal9027,550
Netherlands6411,537
New Caledonia (France)190563
New Zealand1819,638
Nicaragua33220,918
Niger4010,179
Nigeria3784,767
North Macedonia1402,555
Northern Mariana Islands (USA)304170
Norway553,052
Oman461,960
Pakistan3887,712
Palau36766
Panama52223,798
Papua New Guinea575,373
Paraguay23917,712
Peru28597,605
Philippines162180,826
Poland19470,927
Portugal11512,339
Puerto Rico (USA)1775,798
Qatar692,055
Republic of (South) Korea10352,940
Reunion (France)1561,440
Romania12624,106
Russian Federation300433,006
Rwanda63789,034
Samoa179358
San Marino31
Sao Tome e Principe129300
Saudi Arabia207.
Senegal6913,185
Serbia16210,787
Seychelles393474
Sierra Leone524,453
Singapore1569,536
Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 19687
Slovakia1648,895
Slovenia861,831
Solomon Islands79500
South Africa258157,056
South Sudan588,400
Spain11756,698
Sri Lanka13128,555
St. Kitts and Nevis296160
St. Lucia308572
St. Vincent and the Grenadines353392
Sudan5221,000
Suriname1851,000
Sweden9610,175
Switzerland776,881
Syria6010,599
Taiwan25058,571
Tajikistan14114,000
Tanzania5032,671
Thailand391274,277
Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)55763
Togo594,990
Tonga516557
Trinidad and Tobago2763,802
Tunisia19623,484
Turkey424362,422
Turkmenistan57635,000
Tuvalu11011
Uganda15276,946
Ukraine13044,024
United Arab Emirates1049,826
United Kingdom: England & Wales14086,256
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland991,910
United Kingdom: Scotland1508,274
United States of America5411,808,100
Uruguay44915,767
Uzbekistan8529,000
Vanuatu65195
Venezuela19967,200
Vietnam135133,986
Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)368114
Virgin Islands (USA)251261
Yemen144,268
Zambia12525,372
Zimbabwe15324,068

Territories or other subnational areas

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See also

Notes

See also

  1. Territories or other subnational areas
higher up. The World Prison Brief (WPB) site does not list an incarceration rate for the United Kingdom as a whole, that includes all its territories, and other subnational areas, etc.: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands. They are listed separately in the table. And the World Prison Brief site has pages for each of them.[5] A rate for the United Kingdom as a whole can be calculated by adding up their prison populations, and then dividing by their combined population.

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest Highest to Lowest
  2. https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate
  3. https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total
  4. . This flag template removes the names of the countries behind territories, subnational areas, etc.. Other flag templates (such as) do not do that. But that template can not create specialized country links. See .
  5. https://www.prisonstudies.org/search/node/united%20kingdom Search of World Prison Brief website for "United Kingdom"

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