This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each. [1]
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.
Location | Rates per 100,000 [2] | Counts [3] |
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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 | 662 | c.
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 * | 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 * [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.
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 |
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: