List of countries by incarceration rate
This is a list of countries by incarceration rate.[1]
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Incarceration rates[edit]
This list is initially sorted alphabetically. Click the sorting cell (with the 
icon) below the incarceration rate header to sort by rate. (Requires JavaScript.) The table can be sorted in ascending or descending order. The row number column stays static, and does not sort.
The chart source does not list an incarceration rate for the UK as a whole. In the list see Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. If there is a rate for the United Kingdom in the table below it has been calculated by adding up the population of the constituent parts of the UK, and by adding up the prison populations.
If South Korea is not found in the table below look for it listed as Republic of (South) Korea. For info on North Korea, see notes below.
World Prison Brief WPB) may or may not incorporate juvenile incarceration numbers into the totals for each country. See the individual WPB country pages for more info.[1]
- "Notes" column links to notes section below the chart.
- "c." (circa) indicates "approximately". Sorting will not work correctly if it is in front of the number.
- Italics is for a dependent territory, subnational area, etc..
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Notes[edit]
Europe[edit]
Prison population of Europe is approximately 1.2 million[2] of total 743 million population.[3]
Australia[edit]
With a prison population of 42,000 and a total 2018 population of 25 million, Australia has an incarceration rate of 171 per 100,000 population, or 222 per 100,000 adult population.[4]
In addition to its standard prisons, Australia also operates a separate system of immigration prisons to detain foreigners who have breached the terms of, or lack a visa.[5] Some of these immigration detention centres are used to indefinitely detain[6] asylum seekers and refugees, including children[7], often without trial, sometimes for several years.[6] Immigration detainees are not included in the data for prison population and incarceration rates.[8]
Additionally, the number of prisoners and incarceration rate differs for each Australian state and territory, with some having much higher or lower incarceration rates than the national average.
In addition to adult prisoners, on an average night in June 2017, there was 964 minors imprisoned in Australia.[9]
China[edit]
China: World Prison Brief rate of 118 per 100,000 at mid-2015 is for 1,649,804 sentenced prisoners in Ministry of Justice prisons only. World Prison Brief states that in addition to the sentenced prisoners, there may be more than 650,000 held in detention centers. "A total prison population of 2,300,000 would raise the prison population rate to 164 per 100,000."[10]
After 2015 there was a great increase in the number of people in the Xinjiang re-education camps. Hundreds of thousands to millions may have been detained. See also: Re-education through labor, and Laogai.
India[edit]
Prison population of India has been 419,623 by Dec 31, 2015, the latest publicly available information. According website National Prison Portal, prisoner population of India around 480,000 currently [11]
North Korea[edit]
North Korea. Little information exists regarding North Korea's incarceration rate. The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates 150,000 to 200,000 incarcerated based on testimony of defectors from the state police bureau, which roughly equals 600-800 people incarcerated per 100,000.[when?][12] For more info see Prisons in North Korea.
United Kingdom[edit]
United Kingdom. Main chart source only provides rates for the constituent parts of the UK.[1] In the above table see Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. If they are not listed separately, then they can be found listed under the UK listing.
United States[edit]
| Juveniles in residential placement, 1997–2015. US[13] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Male | Female | Total |
| 1997 | 90,771 | 14,284 | 105,055 |
| 1999 | 92,985 | 14,508 | 107,493 |
| 2001 | 89,115 | 15,104 | 104,219 |
| 2003 | 81,975 | 14,556 | 96,531 |
| 2006 | 78,998 | 13,723 | 92,721 |
| 2007 | 75,017 | 11,797 | 86,814 |
| 2010 | 61,359 | 9,434 | 70,793 |
| 2011 | 53,079 | 8,344 | 61,423 |
| 2013 | 46,421 | 7,727 | 54,148 |
| 2015 | 40,750 | 7,293 | 48,043 |
United States. Incarceration rate (per 100,000 population of all ages) is for inmates held in adult facilities in the United States. It does not include inmates in the custody of correctional facilities operated by departments of corrections in U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and U.S. commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico).[14][15]
In addition, there were 48,043 juveniles in juvenile detention in 2015.[13] For more juvenile detention information and numbers, see Youth incarceration in the United States.
The incarceration rate in the U.S. varies by U.S. state, with some such as Oklahoma and Louisiana, being around 1 and 2/3rds higher than the national average. See: List of U.S. states by incarceration and correctional supervision rate.
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Highest to Lowest. World Prison Brief (WPB). Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by region, or the whole world. Use 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. 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. 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. Data for the whole Wikipedia list was last retrieved on 18 October 2018. Some numbers may be adjusted here later according to later info. Please update the table here only from this WPB source. For a quick method to fully update the table see the relevant section ("conversion examples") of Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files.
- ^ "Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total | World Prison Brief". www.prisonstudies.org.
- ^ http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-population/
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics. "Main Features - Summary of findings". www.abs.gov.au.
- ^ Sarah.Dillon, (8 November 2013). "Immigration detention and human rights". www.humanrights.gov.au.
- ^ a b Doherty, Ben (17 May 2016). "Australia's indefinite detention of refugees illegal, UN rules". the Guardian.
- ^ "All children to be off Nauru by year's end". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 November 2018.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics. "Main Features - Summary of findings". www.abs.gov.au.
- ^ "Youth detention population in Australia 2017, Summary - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare".
- ^ China. By World Prison Brief.
- ^ National Prison Portal
- ^ The Hidden Gulag: The Lives and Voices of "Those Who are Sent to the Mountains", 2nd ed. By David Hawk. Published April 10, 2012 by Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. ISBN 0615623670.
- ^ a b Sickmund, M., Sladky, T.J., Kang, W., & Puzzanchera, C.. "Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement". Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Click "National Crosstabs" at the top, and then choose the census years. Click "Show table" to get the total number of juvenile inmates for those years. Or go here for all the years. And here.
- ^ United States of America. By World Prison Brief.
- ^ Correctional Populations in the United States, 2016 (NCJ 251211). Published April 2018 by U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). By Danielle Kaeble and Mary Cowhig, BJS statisticians. See PDF. Appendix table 1 on page 11 has rates and counts by state. See page 1 "highlights" section for the "1 in ..." numbers. See table 4 on page 4 for a timeline of nationwide incarceration rates. See appendix table 3 on page 13, for "Persons held in custody in state or federal prisons or in local jails, 2000, 2010, and 2015–2016". That table also has incarceration rates. See appendix table 2 on page 12 for the number or persons incarcerated in territorial prisons, military facilities, and jails in Indian country.
External links[edit]
- Core Publications of the World Prison Brief. Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List.
- Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Prison population per capita. Edutube. World map. Move cursor over countries to see incarceration rates. Click the full-screen icon in the bottom-left of the map to launch it in a full-screen window. Then click anywhere on the map and use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in or out. Drag the map to move it in any direction.
- Data Analysis Tools – Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Prisoners. United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- Number of inmates in Ukraine rises for first time in 7 years. 26 March 2009. Kyiv Post.
- [1] Number of Imprisoned Russians Hits Historic Low 14 Dec 2018
