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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]

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

Incarceration rates and counts

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The data below is the latest available at the World Prison Brief (WPB) at the time the data was copied here. See the individual WPB country and subnational area pages for more info on data, dates, and much more. WPB notes this: "As it is not possible to obtain meaningful comparative data on numbers of children in custody in different countries, we do not include juvenile imprisonment data in the highest to lowest lists."[1]

  • Note: Table data fully updated Oct 22, 2024. Some individual countries since then.
Incarceration numbers. Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants.[1]
Location Rates Number
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 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 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
Ivory Coast 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 0662 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
Faroe Islands (Denmark) 23 12
Fiji 248 2,276
Finland 52 2,912
France 115 78,509
French Guiana (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 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 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
South Korea 103 52,940
Reunion (France) 156 1,440
Romania 126 24,106
Russia 300 433,006
Rwanda 637 89,034
Samoa 179 358
San Marino 3 1
Sao Tome and Principe 129 300
Saudi Arabia 207 68,056 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
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

See also

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Notes

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total". World Prison Brief (WPB). Accessed Oct 22, 2024 to fully update the table. Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by region, or the whole world. Use other 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. Direct links: Rates and Numbers. 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. ^ 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.
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