Prison Population
WorldSocial / HealthPoliticalCulturalNumber of persons imprisoned per 100,000 people by country.
World Prison BriefA world map showing prison populations per 100,000 people. Dark blue (more than 400): U S A, Turkmenistan. Blue to light blue (100 to 400): Russia, Brazil, China, Australia. Very light blue (less than 100): India, Canada, and parts of central Africa.
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Class | Rank | Per 100,000 People | Aden | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | Bahama Islands | Basutoland | Bechuanaland | British Guiana | British Honduras | British North Borneo | Cameroons | Canada | Ceylon | Cyprus | Egypt | Falkland Islands | Fiji | Gambia | Gold Coast | India | Iraq | Irish Free State | Jamaica | Kenya | Kuwait | Malay States | Mauritius | New Hebrides | New Zealand | Newfoundland | Nigeria | North East New Guinea | Northern Rhodesia | Nyasaland | Oman | Palestine | Qatar | Samoa | Sarawak | Sierra Leone | Solomon Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | South West Africa | Southern Rhodesia | Swaziland | Tanganyika | Territory of Papua | Togo | Transjordan | Trinidad and Tobago | Trucial Oman | Uganda | Union of South Africa | United Kingdom | |
87.3% | 96.9% | 45.3% | 46.0% | 64.8% | 75.6% | 51.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40.9% | 94.0% | 84.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95.6% | 25.7% | 88.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98.8% | 96.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85.3% | 82.8% | 43.0% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95.5% | 3.10% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98.5% | 97.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21.9% | 97.5% | 39.6% | 38.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47.4% | 4.39% | 37.8% | 98.5% | 93.1% | 26.1% | 30.2% | 96.8% | 76.6% | 56.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59.9% | 98.3% | 99.7% | 6.31% | 94.1% | 84.5% | 98.1% | 94.9% | 99.5% | 98.2% | 96.4% | 99.3% | 99.7% | 97.2% | 96.9% | 12.1% | 99.3% | 96.0% |