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.

Incarceration rates and counts

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."

• Note: Table data fully updated Oct 22, 2024. Some individual countries since then.

See also

• Capital punishment by country
• Crime statistics
• List of prisons
• List of countries by intentional homicide rate
• List of U.S. states by intentional 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

• United Kingdom: 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. 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

• . Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List.
• Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• . United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.