List of countries by incarceration rate
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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
[edit]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.
| Location | Rates[2] | Counts[3] |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 45 | 19,000 |
| Albania | 168 | 4,565 |
| Algeria | 217 | 94,749 |
| American Samoa (USA) | 538 | 301 |
| Andorra | 60 | 51 |
| Angola | 68 | 24,490 |
| Anguilla (United Kingdom) | 240 | 36 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 400 | 400 |
| Argentina | 254 | 117,810 |
| Armenia | 83 | 2,469 |
| Aruba (Netherlands) | 288 | 311 |
| Australia | 157 | 41,929 |
| Austria | 101 | 9,275 |
| Azerbaijan | 244 | 24,698 |
| Bahamas | 409 | 1,617 |
| Bahrain | 234 | 3,485 |
| Bangladesh | 50 | 84,851 |
| Barbados | 258 | 743 |
| Belarus | 345 | 32,556 |
| Belgium | 104 | 12,316 |
| Belize | 289 | 1,199 |
| Benin | 138 | 18,170 |
| Bermuda (United Kingdom) | 200 | 124 |
| Bhutan | 145 | 1,119 |
| Bolivia | 209 | 25,291 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation | 79 | 1,688 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska | 44 | 524 |
| Botswana | 161 | 3,971 |
| Brazil | 392 | 850,377 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 186 | 841 |
| Bulgaria | 99 | 6,378 |
| Burkina Faso | 39 | 8,800 |
| Burundi | 103 | 13,824 |
| Cambodia | 257 | 45,122 |
| Cameroon | 116 | 32,003 |
| Canada | 90 | 35,485 |
| Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) | 366 | 2,100 |
| Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) | 277 | 226 |
| Central African Republic | 52 | 2,678 |
| Chad | 59 | 8,700 |
| Chile | 306 | 58,248 |
| China | 119 | 1,690,000 |
| Colombia | 200 | 103,530 |
| Comoros | 46 | 422 |
| Congo (Republic of) | 27 | 1,388 |
| Cook Islands (New Zealand) | 224 | 47 |
| Costa Rica | 343 | 17,829 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 91 | 25,928 |
| Croatia | 115 | 4,445 |
| Cuba | 794 | 90,000 |
| Curaçao (Netherlands) | 261 | 429 |
| Cyprus (Republic of) | 103 | 966 |
| Czech Republic | 179 | 19,649 |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | 46 | 44,536 |
| Denmark | 69 | 4,083 |
| Djibouti | 71 | c. 662 |
| Dominica | 348 | 261 |
| Dominican Republic | 231 | 25,987 |
| Ecuador | 180 | 33,472 |
| Egypt | 116 | 120,000 |
| El Salvador | 1 659 | 109,519 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 63 | 500 |
| Estonia | 129 | 1,805 |
| Eswatini/Swaziland | 243 | 3,405 |
| Ethiopia | 99 | 110,000 |
| Faeroe Islands (Denmark) | 23 | 12 |
| Fiji | 248 | 2,276 |
| Finland | 52 | 2,912 |
| France | 115 | 78,509 |
| French Guiana/Guyane (France) | 310 | 1,022 |
| French Polynesia (France) | 200 | 575 |
| Gabon | 228 | 5,226 |
| Gambia | 22 | 543 |
| Georgia | 275 | 10,523 |
| Germany | 68 | 57,955 |
| Ghana | 42 | 14,361 |
| Gibraltar (United Kingdom) | 273 | 92 |
| Greece | 98 | 10,242 |
| Greenland (Denmark) | 241 | 136 |
| Grenada | 338 | 385 |
| Guadeloupe (France) | 230 | 916 |
| Guam (USA) | 475 | 820 |
| Guatemala | 123 | 23,361 |
| Guernsey (United Kingdom) | 143 | 95 |
| Guinea (Republic of) | 34 | 4,375 |
| Guinea Bissau | 31 | 596 |
| Guyana | 271 | 2,156 |
| Haiti | 63 | 7,523 |
| Honduras | 189 | 19,500 |
| Hong Kong (China) | 121 | 9,079 |
| Hungary | 192 | 18,270 |
| Iceland | 35 | 140 |
| India | 41 | 573,220 |
| Indonesia | 96 | 273,541 |
| Iran | 228 | 189,000 |
| Iraq | 179 | 73,715 |
| Ireland, Republic of | 91 | 4,964 |
| Isle of Man (United Kingdom) | 153 | 132 |
| Israel | 217 | 19,756 |
| Italy | 105 | 61,758 |
| Jamaica | 125 | 3,559 |
| Japan | 33 | 40,881 |
| Jersey (United Kingdom) | 135 | 146 |
| Jordan | 185 | 19,140 |
| Kazakhstan | 184 | 35,228 |
| Kenya | 103 | 60,000 |
| Kiribati | 113 | 129 |
| Kosovo/Kosova | 99 | 1,830 |
| Kuwait | 101 | 4,500 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 117 | 7,633 |
| Laos | 166 | 11,885 |
| Latvia | 175 | 3,271 |
| Lebanon | 141 | 9,254 |
| Lesotho | 104 | 2,216 |
| Liberia | 55 | 3,000 |
| Libya | 269 | 19,103 |
| Liechtenstein | 35 | 14 |
| Lithuania | 156 | 4,551 |
| Luxembourg | 89 | 600 |
| Macau (China) | 196 | 1,345 |
| Madagascar | 101 | 30,530 |
| Malawi | 76 | 16,366 |
| Malaysia | 241 | 82,144 |
| Maldives | 314 | 1,700 |
| Mali | 40 | 8,670 |
| Malta | 119 | 671 |
| Marshall Islands | 66 | 35 |
| Martinique (France) | 275 | 1,025 |
| Mauritania | 57 | 2,826 |
| Mauritius | 215 | 2,755 |
| Mayotte (France) | 205 | 616 |
| Mexico | 174 | 233,687 |
| Micronesia, Federated States of | 127 | 132 |
| Moldova (Republic of) | 235 | 5,695 |
| Monaco | 81 | 31 |
| Mongolia | 183 | 5,832 |
| Montenegro | 170 | 1,046 |
| Morocco | 267 | 102,653 |
| Mozambique | 63 | 21,814 |
| Myanmar (formerly Burma) | 183 | 100,324 |
| Namibia | 318 | 8,900 |
| Nauru | 345 | 38 |
| Nepal | 90 | 27,550 |
| Netherlands | 64 | 11,537 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 190 | 563 |
| New Zealand | 181 | 9,638 |
| Nicaragua | 332 | 20,918 |
| Niger | 40 | 10,179 |
| Nigeria | 37 | 84,767 |
| North Macedonia | 140 | 2,555 |
| Northern Mariana Islands (USA) | 304 | 170 |
| Norway | 55 | 3,052 |
| Oman | 46 | 1,960 |
| Pakistan | 38 | 87,712 |
| Palau | 367 | 66 |
| Panama | 522 | 23,798 |
| Papua New Guinea | 57 | 5,373 |
| Paraguay | 239 | 17,712 |
| Peru | 285 | 97,605 |
| Philippines | 162 | 180,826 |
| Poland | 194 | 70,927 |
| Portugal | 115 | 12,339 |
| Puerto Rico (USA) | 177 | 5,798 |
| Qatar | 69 | 2,055 |
| Republic of (South) Korea | 103 | 52,940 |
| Reunion (France) | 156 | 1,440 |
| Romania | 126 | 24,106 |
| Russian Federation | 300 | 433,006 |
| Rwanda | 637 | 89,034 |
| Samoa | 179 | 358 |
| San Marino | 3 | 1 |
| Sao Tome e Principe | 129 | 300 |
| Saudi Arabia | 207 | c. 68,056. |
| Senegal | 69 | 13,185 |
| Serbia | 162 | 10,787 |
| Seychelles | 393 | 474 |
| Sierra Leone | 52 | 4,453 |
| Singapore | 156 | 9,536 |
| Sint Maarten (Netherlands) | 196 | 87 |
| Slovakia | 164 | 8,895 |
| Slovenia | 86 | 1,831 |
| Solomon Islands | 79 | 500 |
| South Africa | 258 | 157,056 |
| South Sudan | 58 | 8,400 |
| Spain | 117 | 56,698 |
| Sri Lanka | 131 | 28,555 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 296 | 160 |
| St. Lucia | 308 | 572 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 353 | 392 |
| Sudan | 52 | 21,000 |
| Suriname | 185 | 1,000 |
| Sweden | 96 | 10,175 |
| Switzerland | 77 | 6,881 |
| Syria | 60 | 10,599 |
| Taiwan | 250 | 58,571 |
| Tajikistan | 141 | 14,000 |
| Tanzania | 50 | 32,671 |
| Thailand | 391 | 274,277 |
| Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) | 55 | 763 |
| Togo | 59 | 4,990 |
| Tonga | 516 | 557 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 276 | 3,802 |
| Tunisia | 196 | 23,484 |
| Turkey | 424 | 362,422 |
| Turkmenistan | 576 | 35,000 |
| Tuvalu | 110 | 11 |
| Uganda | 152 | 76,946 |
| Ukraine | 130 | 44,024 |
| United Arab Emirates | 104 | 9,826 |
| United Kingdom: England & Wales | 140 | 86,256 |
| United Kingdom: Northern Ireland | 99 | 1,910 |
| United Kingdom: Scotland | 150 | 8,274 |
| United States of America | 541 | 1,808,100 |
| Uruguay | 449 | 15,767 |
| Uzbekistan | 85 | 29,000 |
| Vanuatu | 65 | 195 |
| Venezuela | 199 | 67,200 |
| Vietnam | 135 | 133,986 |
| Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) | 368 | 114 |
| Virgin Islands (USA) | 251 | 261 |
| Yemen | 14 | 4,268 |
| Zambia | 125 | 25,372 |
| Zimbabwe | 153 | 24,068 |
Territories or other subnational areas
[edit]To keep the above chart more compact the country names may be stripped from the territories or other subnational areas.[4] Here is that info as provided by World Prison Brief:
See also
[edit]- Crime statistics
- List of prisons
- List of countries by execution rate
- List of countries by intentional homicide rate
- List of U.S. states by homicide rate
- List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate
- United States incarceration rate
- Category:Penal systems by country
Notes
[edit]- United Kingdom: See also #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.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Highest to Lowest. World Prison Brief (WPB). Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by region, or the whole world. Use menu to select highest-to-lowest lists of prison population totals, prison population rates, percentage of pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners, percentage of female prisoners, percentage of foreign prisoners, and occupancy rate. Column headings in WPB tables can be clicked to reorder columns lowest to highest, or alphabetically. For detailed information for each country click on any country name in lists. The individual country pages also give the date of the data. See also the WPB main data page and click on the map links and/or the sidebar links to get to the region and country desired. Please update the tables here only from this WPB source.
- ^ Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate. From World Prison Brief
- ^ Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total. From: World Prison Brief.
- ^ {{Flagg}}. This flag template removes the names of the countries behind territories, subnational areas, etc.. Other flag templates (such as {{flaglist}}) do not do that. But that template can not create specialized country links. See Help:Tables and locations#Adding specialized country/state links.
- ^ Search of World Prison Brief website for "United Kingdom". It pulls up the pages for England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cayman Islands, Jersey, Virgin Islands, Isle of Man, Guernsey, Gibraltar, etc.. World Prison Brief.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
- Core Publications of the World Prison Brief. Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List.
- Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Data Analysis Tools – Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Prisoners. United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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