List of countries by incarceration rate

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* indicates "Incarceration in LOCATION" or "Crime in LOCATION" links.
Note: This table fully updated July 26, 2023. Some individual countries since then.
Note: For the UK as a whole see #United Kingdom in notes section.
Note: See N/A definition. "Not available" in this case.

Incarceration rates and counts. From World Prison Brief
Location Rates per 100,000[1] Counts[2]
  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 * [Note] 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 * [Note] 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 * [Note] 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 * [Note] 143 85,851
  Equatorial Guinea 63 500
  Eritrea [Note] 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 * 36 45,714
  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 * [Note] N/A N/A
  North Macedonia 128 2,362
  Northern Ireland * [Note] 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 * [Note] 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 [Note] 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 * [Note] 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