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.

[1] 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.

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