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List of countries by incarceration rate

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

Prison population rates from World Prison Brief. See date on map.

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]

* indicates "Incarceration in LOCATION" or "Crime in LOCATION" links.
Note: This table fully updated July 26, 2023. Some individual countries since then.
Note: See N/A definition. "Not available" in this case.

Incarceration rates and counts. From World Prison Brief
Country Rate
(per 100k population)[2] 		Incarceration counts[3]
  Afghanistan * 36 14,000
  Albania * 174 4,807
  Algeria 217 94,749
  American Samoa 538 301
  Andorra 64 51
  Angola 79 24,966
  Anguilla 240 36
  Antigua and Barbuda 237 233
  Argentina * 249 114,074
  Armenia * 72 2,128
  Aruba 238 254
  Australia *[a] 158 41,155
  Austria * 97 8,798
  Azerbaijan * 219 22,334
  Bahamas 409 1,617
  Bahrain * 234 3,485
  Bangladesh * 46 81,156
  Barbados 258 743
  Belarus 345 32,556
  Belgium * 97 11,326
  Belize * 289 1,199
  Benin * 111 14,190
  Bermuda 200 124
  Bhutan * 145 1,119
  Bolivia * 175 20,864
  Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 83 1,813
  Republika Srpska 46 554
  Botswana 161 3,971
  Brazil * 389 835,643
  Brunei 186 841
  Bulgaria * 93 6,386
  Burkina Faso 38 8,369
  Burundi 85 12,188
  Cambodia * 219 38,050
  Cameroon 116 32,003
  Canada * 85 32,261
  Cape Verde * 296 1,549
  Cayman Islands 266 189
  Central African Republic 40 1,990
  Chad 59 8,700
  Chile * 264 49,845
  China *[b] 119 1,690,000
  Colombia * 196 100,639
  Comoros 43 387
  Congo 27 1,388
  Cook Islands 224 47
  Costa Rica * 301 15,516
  Ivory Coast * 92 25,121
  Croatia 102 3,955
  Cuba *[c] 794 90,000
  Curaçao 261 429
  Cyprus 103 947
  Czech Republic * 187 19,747
  DR Congo * 24 22,820
  Denmark * 72 4,248
  Djibouti 71 0662 c. 662
  Dominica 316 237
  Dominican Republic * 222 25,383
  Ecuador * 167 30,540
  Egypt * 116 120,000
  El Salvador * 1,086 71,000
  England and Wales *[d] 143 85,851
  Equatorial Guinea 63 500
  Eritrea [e] N/A N/A
  Estonia * 150 1,994
  Eswatini 243 3,405
  Ethiopia * 99 110,000
  Faroe Islands 23 12
  Fiji 256 2,379
  Finland * 51 2,827
  France * 107 73,080
  French Guiana 280 907
  French Polynesia 189 539
  Gabon 228 5,226
  Gambia 22 543
  Georgia 265 9,626
  Germany * 67 56,557
  Ghana * 47 15,185
  Gibraltar * 273 92
  Greece * 103 10,723
  Greenland * 241 136
  Grenada 335 379
  Guadeloupe * 190 851
  Guam 408 700
  Guatemala * 127 24,031
  Guernsey 112 74
  Guinea 34 4,375
  Guinea-Bissau 31 596
  Guyana * 271 2,156
  Haiti * 98 11,253
  Honduras * 191 19,619
  Hong Kong * 106 7,751
  Hungary * 194 18,800
  Iceland 35 133
  India * 40 554,034
  Indonesia * 99 275,518
  Iran * 228 189,000
  Iraq 179 73,715
  Ireland 91 4,702
  Isle of Man 103 90
  Israel * 168 14,961
  Italy * 97 57,230
  Jamaica * 125 3,559
  Japan * 33 40,881
  Jersey 135 146
  Jordan * 185 19,140
  Kazakhstan * 184 35,228
  Kenya * 107 58,887
  Kiribati 113 129
  Kosovo * 93 1,642
  Kuwait * 103 4,500
  Kyrgyzstan 117 7,633
  Laos * 166 11,885
  Latvia * 169 3,169
  Lebanon 143 9,500
  Lesotho * 104 2,216
  Liberia * 55 3,000
  Libya 176 12,300
  Liechtenstein 31 12
  Lithuania 177 4,955
  Luxembourg 106 685
  Macau * 197 1,323
  Madagascar 98 28,830
  Malawi 76 16,366
  Malaysia * 217 72,437
  Maldives * 314 1,700
  Mali 40 8,670
  Malta 113 589
  Marshall Islands 66 35
  Martinique 254 976
  Mauritania * 57 2,826
  Mauritius * 197 2,567
  Mayotte 205 600
  Mexico * 175 232,230
  Micronesia 127 132
  Moldova * 236 6,084
  Monaco 36 14
  Mongolia 183 5,832
  Montenegro * 153 948
  Morocco 260 97,204
  Mozambique 62 20,517
  Myanmar * 183 100,324
  Namibia * 318 8,900
  Nauru * 140 14
  Nepal * 83 25,400
  Netherlands 65 11,447
  New Caledonia 195 572
  New Zealand * 162 8,376
  Nicaragua 332 20,918
  Niger 39 9,187
  Nigeria * 35 77,684
  North Korea * [f] N/A N/A
  North Macedonia 128 2,362
  Northern Ireland * [d] 99 1,900
  Northern Mariana Islands 273 153
  Norway * 55 2,975
  Oman * 46 1,960
  Pakistan * 38 87,712
  Palau 428 77
  Panama * 499 22,239
  Papua New Guinea * 58 5,087
  Paraguay * 234 17,065
  Peru * 264 90,516
  Philippines * 162 180,826
  Poland * 208 78,102
  Portugal * 122 12,623
  Puerto Rico * 221 7,176
  Qatar * 58 1,644
  South Korea * 103 52,940
  Réunion 137 1,249
  Romania * 122 23,079
  Russia * 300 433,006
  Rwanda 621 84,710
  Samoa 179 358
  San Marino 26 9
  São Tomé and Príncipe 115 260
  Saudi Arabia * 207 68,056 c. 68,056
  Scotland * [d] 141 7,775
  Senegal 67 12,430
  Serbia * 155 10,557
  Seychelles 360 362
  Sierra Leone 57 4,801
  Singapore * 156 9,536
  Sint Maarten 196 87
  Slovakia * 187 10,164
  Slovenia * 70 1,490
  Solomon Islands 79 500
  Somalia [g] N/A N/A
  South Africa * 250 151,755
  South Sudan 58 8,400
  Spain * 116 55,095
  Sri Lanka * 128 27,634
  Saint Kitts and Nevis * 296 160
  Saint Lucia * 278 514
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 347 385
  Sudan * 52 21,000
  Suriname * 185 1,000
  Sweden * 74 7,713
  Switzerland * 73 6,445
  Syria 60 10,599
  Taiwan * 234 54,946
  Tajikistan 141 14,000
  Tanzania 50 32,671
  Thailand * 377 262,319
  East Timor 55 763
  Togo 59 4,990
  Tonga * 166 176
  Trinidad and Tobago * 276 3,802
  Tunisia 196 23,484
  Turkey * 392 336,315
  Turkmenistan 576 35,000
  Tuvalu * 110 11
  Uganda 151 75,205
  Ukraine * 123 48,038
  United Arab Emirates * 104 9,826
  United States * [h] 531 1,767,200
  Uruguay 408 14,347
  Uzbekistan 85 29,000
  Vanuatu 65 195
  Venezuela * 199 67,200
  Vietnam * 130 125,697
  British Virgin Islands 368 114
  U.S. Virgin Islands 345 359
  Yemen * 35 9,719
  Zambia 118 24,000
  Zimbabwe * 121 22,114

Territories or other subnational areas edit

To keep the above chart more compact the country names were stripped from the territories or other subnational areas.[11] Here is that info as provided by World Prison Brief:

Territory or other subnational area.  
  American Samoa (USA)
  Anguilla (United Kingdom)
  Aruba (Netherlands)
  Bermuda (United Kingdom)
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)
  Cook Islands (New Zealand)
  Curaçao (Netherlands)
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  French Guiana/Guyane (France)
  French Polynesia (France)
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom)
  Greenland (Denmark)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  Guam (USA)
  Guernsey (United Kingdom)
  Hong Kong (China)
  Jersey (United Kingdom)
  Macau (China)
  Martinique (France)
  Mayotte (France)
  New Caledonia (France)
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Puerto Rico (USA)
  Reunion (France)
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
  United Kingdom: England & Wales
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland
  United Kingdom: Scotland
  United States of America
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Virgin Islands (USA)

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ See info about additional detainees, and alleged detainees, at Immigration detention in Australia and Punishment in Australia.
  2. ^ See info about additional detainees, and alleged detainees, at Re-education through labor, Laogai, and Xinjiang internment camps.
  3. ^ See info about additional detainees, and alleged detainees, at Human rights in Cuba. Also at Law enforcement in Cuba.
  4. ^ a b c See also #Territories or other subnational areas higher up. The data source (World Prison Brief) (WPB) does not list an incarceration rate for the United Kingdom as a whole, with its territories, and other subnational areas, etc.. In the main table see England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands. WPB has pages for each of them.[4] 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.
  5. ^ World Prison Brief has limited info on Eritrea.[5]
  6. ^ World Prison Brief has limited info on North Korea.[6] See info about detainees, and alleged detainees, at Prisons in North Korea.
  7. ^ World Prison Brief has limited info on Somalia.[7]
  8. ^ The incarceration rate (per 100,000 population of all ages) is for inmates held in adult facilities in the United States. It does not include inmates in the custody of correctional facilities operated by departments of corrections in U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and U.S. commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico).[8][9] In addition, there were 36,479 juveniles in juvenile detention in 2019.[10] For more juvenile detention information and numbers, see Youth incarceration in the United States. The incarceration rate in the U.S. varies greatly by U.S. state. See: List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate. That article also lists male and female incarceration rates by state. See also: Incarceration of women in the United States.

References edit

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate. From World Prison Brief
  3. ^ Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total. From: World Prison Brief.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Eritrea. World Prison Brief.
  6. ^ North Korea. By World Prison Brief.
  7. ^ Somalia. World Prison Brief.
  8. ^ United States of America. By World Prison Brief.
  9. ^ Correctional Populations in the United States, 2016 Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine (NCJ 251211). Published April 2018 by U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). By Danielle Kaeble and Mary Cowhig, BJS statisticians. See PDF Archived 2018-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Appendix table 1 on page 11 has rates and counts by state. See page 1 "highlights" section for the "1 in ..." numbers. See table 4 on page 4 for a timeline of nationwide incarceration rates. See appendix table 3 on page 13, for "Persons held in custody in state or federal prisons or in local jails, 2000, 2010, and 2015–2016". That table also has incarceration rates. See appendix table 2 on page 12 for the number or persons incarcerated in territorial prisons, military facilities, and jails in Indian country.
  10. ^ Sickmund, M., Sladky, T.J., Kang, W., & Puzzanchera, C.. "Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Click "National Crosstabs" at the top, and then choose the census years. Click "Show table" to get the total number of juvenile inmates for those years. Or go here for all years. And here.
  11. ^ {{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.

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